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A 21-year-old man has admitted using a fake $100 bill to buy drinks at a bar.
Lo-Torean Durrant, of Claytown, Hamilton Parish, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to using the bill at the Bermuda Bistro Bar on August 4 knowing it was fake. He also a...
DATE: Nov 10, 2012
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People who owe money may get more protection from debt collectors.
The promise was made in last week’s Throne Speech, which said Government was looking to standardise protocol for credit agencies to ensure fairness to consumers. The Government is als...
DATE: Nov 10, 2012
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Officials will decide this morning whether to continue with a search and rescue operation for a man who jumped off a sailing vessel about 50 miles northwest of Bermuda.
The man, aged 49 and thought to be from the US, was wearing a personal flotation...
DATE: Nov 10, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
Bermuda will go to the polls on December 17, Premier Paula Cox announced last night.
At the Progressive Labour Party's first election rally at Warwick Workman's Club, Ms Cox urged her supporters to get out the vote and put her party in power for a fo...
DATE: Nov 09, 2012
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Politics
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A bus passenger who threatened a driver with a hammer in a fit of rage got a “slap on the wrist” sentence this week, according to the victim.
Dwain Smith said his attacker, Denton Parris, deserved “at least three years in prison” for the attack, whic...
DATE: Nov 09, 2012
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Court reports were ordered on an unemployed Pembroke man after he admitted throwing a rock at his ex-girlfriend.
Garrett Burrows, 45, of Court Street, admitted assaulting Zina Richardson on June 5.
Crown counsel Larissa Burgess told Magistrates’ Cour...
DATE: Nov 09, 2012
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A hotel chef who sexually assaulted a male co-worker has escaped jail, but was ordered to pay a $3,000 fine.
Indian guest worker Marc Vivian Bungaleea apologised to his victim for the incidents, which occurred between October and December of last yea...
DATE: Nov 09, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
More than a quarter of Bermuda’s households characterised as “poor” , 150 businesses are “awaiting dissolution”, and banks’ reports of $74 million in non-performing loans between July and September were among the statistics that One Bermuda Alliance ...
DATE: Nov 09, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
The evidence of a gang expert got a verbal bashing for the second time this week in the Court of Appeal yesterday.
It was defence lawyer Elizabeth Christopher’s turn to tell the three-judge panel that Sergeant Alexander Rollin should not have been al...
DATE: Nov 09, 2012
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Court
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The Bermuda Police Service is mourning the loss of one of their own — Pc Garth Francis.
The Dominican officer died on Sunday in his home country after a period of illness at the age of 41, leaving his mother and three children.
Commissioner of Police...
DATE: Nov 09, 2012
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