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A man involved in the importation of more than $850,000 worth of cannabis was this morning jailed for seven years.
Kenneth Butterfield, 33, told Supreme Court he got embroiled in the scheme amid financial worries over his sick child.
“I did it for th...
DATE: Dec 20, 2010
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Participants in Government’s Mirrors programme hung Christmas decorations, swept floors and bathed animals at the WindReach Recreational Village as part of their community service.
Youth Minister Glenn Blakeney said the group of Mirrors delegates and...
DATE: Dec 20, 2010
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Jonathan Bell
A judge advised taxi drivers who fear being attacked to carry “a good piece of wood” or a bat, but not a knife or gun in their cab.
Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves made the comments before freeing a taxi driver from jail seven months into his three-yea...
DATE: Dec 20, 2010
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The mother of a man who accused police of beating him described standing between the officers and her son minutes before the alleged attack.
Gina Robinson told Magistrates’ Court on Friday that police came to her home on Plaice’s Point, in Pembroke, ...
DATE: Dec 20, 2010
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A young woman badly injured in a motorcycle crash has been flown to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
According to hospital staff, she remains in intensive care, and at last check yesterday was still in critical condition.
The 24-year-ol...
DATE: Dec 20, 2010
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Jonathan Bell
As Christmas approaches, a lot of fathers will be thinking even more of the children they would like to spend time with, but cannot. Nadia Arandjelovic looks at the issue of fathers who appear to be frozen out from taking an active part in raising th...
DATE: Dec 20, 2010
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Insurers Lancashire Group has gathered ten boxes of clothing as a gift for a struggling community in the Philippines.
The company operates a charitable foundation which sends aid overseas as well as to Bermuda charities. Crucial recent projects have ...
DATE: Dec 20, 2010
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An arts education charity faces cutting programmes and laying off staff unless it can raise $300,000 by the end of January.
Kaleidoscope Arts Foundation, which has seen its funding and donations slashed during the economic crisis, yesterday called fo...
DATE: Dec 20, 2010
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermuda is tonight under a storm warning as forecasters say the Island will suffer severe weather conditions which are due to last into tomorrow morning.
Mark Guishard, Director of the Bermuda Weather Service, said the forecast called for sustained g...
DATE: Dec 20, 2010
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A 29-year-old man who fell off a cargo ship has been declared lost at sea, according to Bermuda Maritime Operations.
An Indian national aboard the Bermuda-registered MV Livorno Express was discovered to have gone overboard on Friday, when the cargo v...
DATE: Dec 19, 2010
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