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A repeat offender who was pepper-sprayed when he assaulted a police officer has been warned by a magistrate to change his ways.
Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe told 55-year-old Marvin Woolridge: “You are not a spring chicken any more,”
He added: “I was...
DATE: Feb 01, 2019
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Court
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Three staff have been made redundant at the Bermuda Broadcasting Company, the firm announced last night.
The Royal Gazette understands that departures include Jay Philpott, who goes by DJ Radigun and started on Power 95 in 2015.
Also leaving is radio...
DATE: Feb 01, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man was treated in hospital yesterday after he suffered knife wounds in an attack by three other men.
A police spokesman said the 25-year-old Warwick man’s injuries were not life-threatening.
Three men, two aged 20 and one aged 57, were later arres...
DATE: Feb 01, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A homeless man who became a well-known figure in Hamilton was remembered yesterday.
Friends and family said Reginald “Sonny” Furbert, who was 70, was a talented tenpin bowler, an avid reader, a sharp dresser — and a kind and generous man.
Moira Bean,...
DATE: Feb 01, 2019
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A pedestrian who was struck by a car as he walked along North Shore Road two weeks ago is out of intensive care.
A police spokesman said the 62-year-old man is stable and is on the general ward at the King Edward VII Hospital.
The man was struck near...
DATE: Feb 01, 2019
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A man injured in a fight with three other men yesterday has been released from hospital.
A police spokesman said the 26-year-old man had been hit with a blunt object — although a knife was also brandished during the assault on Random Lane, Warwick.
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DATE: Feb 01, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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(Photographs by Blaire Simmons)
DATE: Jan 31, 2019
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Lance Haynes got a baptism of fire as he helped battle one of the largest blazes in recent times only months into the job.
Now he is the 2018 Firefighter of the Year, only two years after he and colleagues tackled the major fire that destroyed a buil...
DATE: Jan 31, 2019
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No pressure was put on the health minister to sign off on the termination of the Bermuda Health Council chief executive, she insisted yesterday.
Kim Wilson said that her approval of the end of Tawanna Wedderburn’s employment was made without outside ...
DATE: Jan 31, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A social inquiry report was ordered on a teenager caught in possession of cannabis with intent to supply.
Jah’Dimon Parkes, 17, admitted the offence at Magistrates’ Court this week.
The court heard that Parkes, from Pembroke, was arrested in the par...
DATE: Jan 31, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Court
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