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to revoke the licences of two fishermen during the Motion to Adjourn in the House of Assembly on Friday night.
Mr. Simmons was referring to the case of Leslie Pitcher and Stanley Jack O'Connor who had their licences taken away after they were found u...
DATE: Jun 30, 1997
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Bermuda is set to bring in new laws to deal with terrorism on the high seas -- with maximum penalties of life imprisonment for offenders.
The hard-hitting legislation is intended to combat hijacking and terrorist bombing of ships or ports.
Tourism Mi...
DATE: Jun 30, 1997
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counts of "serious breaches of conduct'' before controversy erupted over the trial of an alleged drugs baron, it has been revealed.
The news came as Police attempted to restore public faith in the Police service after Ellsworth Wilson was acquitted o...
DATE: Jun 30, 1997
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system before some Bermudians.
Education Minister Jerome Dill admitted this on Friday in the House of Assembly.
He was responding to questions tabled by Opposition Leader Jennifer Smith.
"Non-Bermudian teachers who are on contract were placed before ...
DATE: Jun 30, 1997
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Derrick S. Astwood, of North Shore, Pembroke, was sentenced Friday in the Supreme Court after being found guilty in a Magistrates' Court of possessing an offensive weapon -- a knife -- and grievous bodily harm.
David Cox, of Glebe Road, Pembroke, was...
DATE: Jun 30, 1997
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A disillusioned parent has slammed Government for failing to respond to concerns about the public education system.
And he suggested that it was time for a change in Government.
Hav Trott -- who earlier this year called for the privatisation of the p...
DATE: Jun 30, 1997
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waiting for a haircut.
Police were called to Ricky's Barber Shop on Friday evening and found Horace Pearman, of Middle Road, there.
He was apparently waiting to get his hair cut, said a Police spokeswoman.
Mr. Pearman, said to be in his 70's, was rep...
DATE: Jun 30, 1997
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teacher tried to "deck'' a 15-year-old student, another youth told a Family Court trial.
Under examination by defence counsel Victoria Pearman, the student told Magistrate Cheryl Ann Mapp on Thursday: "I heard a bike fall and turned around and saw (t...
DATE: Jun 28, 1997
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Development Applications Board.
Frederick Yearwood had applied to the DAB to have basement apartments in Yearwood Apartments on Woodbourne Avenue in Pembroke.
But the Board refused the application on the grounds that the proposed for units exceeded t...
DATE: Jun 28, 1997
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claimed could enable it to put off an election if opinion polls were unfavourable.
Late in the debate, Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness moved to delete a clause in the Parliamentary Election Amendment Act which would enable the Governor on the ad...
DATE: Jun 28, 1997
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