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A disabled man tried to smuggle over four pounds of freebase cocaine into Bermuda hidden inside the frame of his wheelchair, a court heard yesterday.
Jamaican Patrick Joseph Scarlett is accused of importing the drug after arriving on an American Airl...
DATE: Apr 23, 2002
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The planets are lining up but there is nothing to fear, said local astronomer Eddie McGonagle.
The phenomena, which happens roughly every 20 years, can be seen by looking west where five planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn - can be see...
DATE: Apr 23, 2002
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The Bank of Bermuda will today list its shares on the NASDAQ, but chief executive Henry Smith gave assurances that it will not be taken over by a larger foreign bank because of strict rules put in place by the Government.
The bank will become the fir...
DATE: Apr 23, 2002
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Carnival Cruise Lines, which brings the Carnival Triumph to Bermuda for the first time this June, is getting good bookings, The Royal Gazette has learned.
The 893 ft vessel, which can carry 2,766 passengers, comes to St. George's for three voyages in...
DATE: Apr 23, 2002
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Olive Louise Bean, one of the earliest female musicians to perform in a Bermuda band, passed away last weekend at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
An accomplished pianist, Mrs. Bean was 88. The former wife of Sydney Bean, also an accomplished m...
DATE: Apr 23, 2002
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Transplant surgeon John Powelson is a man with a mission.
After performing no less than 650 transplant operations during his career so far, he is in Bermuda this week to help people understand the donation process and encourage more people to carry c...
DATE: Apr 23, 2002
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The Crown is appealing a sentence handed out to Gershwyn `Shilo' Smith for drugs offences.
The Director of Public Prosecutions is seeking a stiffer sentence than the $30,000 in fines given to Mr. Smith for cultivation and possession of cannabis.
The ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2002
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Technical problems suffered by the Bermuda International Film Festival (BIFF) on the final day of screening last week were not serious, director Aideen Ratteray-Pryse said yesterday.
The Thursday screening of the Japanese film 'An Adolescent' was tem...
DATE: Apr 23, 2002
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Former Bermuda resident and British Tory MP Rupert Allason has been accused of hiding his assets to avoid paying damages to the publisher Random House in a hearing that could see him jailed for contempt of court.
The Independent newspaper in Britain ...
DATE: Apr 22, 2002
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The controversial proposal to close St. George's Police station and move it to Southside is a not a dead issue, it was claimed this weekend.
Despite the fact that not one person brought up the issue during a public meeting about crime in the old town...
DATE: Apr 22, 2002
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