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Government examined options to drop the gaming referendum eight months before it was discarded amid accusations of an Opposition boycott.
However, Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell told The Royal Gazette the suggestions, contained in an advisory docum...
DATE: Feb 08, 2014
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A Devonshire man was jailed for eight years after being caught with almost $1.5 million of heroin in his underpants.
Takai Tota, 24, pleaded guilty last year to possessing 499.82g diamorphine, better known as heroin, with intent to supply in an incid...
DATE: Feb 08, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Thanks to a $40,000 donation from Bermuda’s Roman Catholic community, the Island has raised nearly $64,000 for a life-saving effort in the Philippines.
A fundraiser by the group ANCOP (Answering the Cry of the Poor) in tandem with Couples for Christ ...
DATE: Feb 08, 2014
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A 51-year-old Warwick man remains listed in critical condition in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit following a two-vehicle accident near Marley Beach Drive in Warwick on Thursday.
The accident occurred around 3pm yesterday at the junction of South ...
DATE: Feb 08, 2014
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A Warwick man has been charged with burglary and causing over $3,000 in damage to a resident’s French doors.
Taijuan Davis, 18, denied stealing a bath mat, a rug and coins — valued at $7,292 — from a Stacey Estate residence in Warwick on November 26 ...
DATE: Feb 08, 2014
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A 22-year-old who threatened to kill the mother of his child was yesterday sentenced to a year behind bars.
Andre Nesbett pleaded guilty in Supreme Court earlier this year to sending a series of threatening Facebook messages to his 19-year-old ex-gir...
DATE: Feb 08, 2014
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First responders and emergency landing personnel rushed to LF Wade International Airport last night after a Cessna Citation aircraft aborted its initial landing.
An airport spokesman said: “Due to an indication light in the cockpit that signalled a p...
DATE: Feb 08, 2014
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A teen burglar has been freed on appeal after spending more than a year in jail
Jarico Burt, 18, of Hamilton Parish, was sentenced to corrective training at the Co-ed Facility in December 2012 for his involvement in two counts of burglary.
Burt had p...
DATE: Feb 08, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
A Pembroke woman has been charged with importing more than $36,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis.
Marketa Raynor, 31, of Underhill Lane, denied importing 91.6g of freebase cocaine, 10.58g of cocaine hydrochloride with 68 percent purity, and 98.37g of...
DATE: Feb 08, 2014
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As the Bermuda contingent entered the Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi, Russia, the world’s collective jaw dropped at the sight of Olympian Tucker Murphy sporting Bermuda shorts in temperatures reported to be below 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Celebrities, n...
DATE: Feb 08, 2014
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