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Almost 1,800 people were injured in road crashes last year — 54 more than in 2018.
The grim figures showed a steady increase over the past four years — although deaths on the roads dropped.
Statistics released by the Bermuda Hospitals Board showed 1,...
DATE: Jan 21, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man who tried to rob a stranger at knifepoint claimed he was “blacked out” from alcohol at the time.
Tahj Toussaint, 24, approached Cody Powell on Parliament Street in Hamilton as he walked to Front Street for a taxi, Magistrates’ Court heard yeste...
DATE: Jan 21, 2020
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Police warned yesterday of a “potential imminent risk” to a 14-year-old girl missing from a care home for 11 days.
Destiny Winters was thought to be with an older man when she was spotted last Sunday as she travelled in and out of St George’s by bus....
DATE: Jan 21, 2020
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Fiona McWhirter
A government MP has been sued for a half-million dollars over an alleged unpaid loan.
A writ lodged with the Supreme Court named Grant Forbes as the plaintiff and Scott Simmons, a Progressive Labour Party backbencher, as the defendant.
The writ, from...
DATE: Jan 21, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man stabbed to death more than 13 years ago told a friend that he had been seeing a married woman, a jury heard yesterday.
The Supreme Court murder trial heard that Michael Pierre told police that the victim, Marcus Gibbings, 32, had told him abou...
DATE: Jan 21, 2020
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Court
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An insurance firm has donated more than $3,000 to a charity set up to offer a home for young mothers and their children.
The donation from Aspen Insurance — the idea of Amanda Strong, a senior legal assistant at the firm — was handed over to the Teen...
DATE: Jan 21, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Schoolchildren got a taste of cutting-edge technology as part of a workshop at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences.
Underwater robots, coding and game development were among the subjects explored on the Tools of Ocean Exploration event at the bio...
DATE: Jan 21, 2020
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Education
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Police have warned the public that fake US $50 banknotes are in circulation.
A police spokesman said that one of the notes was tendered at the A1 grocery store on Valley Road, Paget on Saturday night.
The counterfeit cash was spotted and kept by the ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2020
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Police breath test checkpoints will be set up in seven parishes at the weekend.
Police said that the stops, announced last Wednesday in the Official Gazette, would cover Hamilton Parish, Smith’s, Devonshire, Pembroke, Paget, Warwick and Southampton.
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DATE: Jan 21, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A group of pupils involved in a youth leadership conference planted a tree yesterday to mark Martin Luther King Jr Day.
Pupils from public and private schools also used the occasion to signal the start of a massive Vision 20/20 tree-planting campaign...
DATE: Jan 21, 2020
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