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An excavator has swept away the last traces of a beach bar in St. George's to make way for the Park Hyatt hotel.
The concrete foundations of Beach It, which had operated at Fort St. Catherine for eight years, were removed by a digger last week.
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DATE: Dec 17, 2008
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Luxury hotel chain Park Hyatt signed a management agreement with developer Carl Bazarian to run a new hotel at the old Club Med site at a ceremony on the Cabinet grounds yesterday.
While Park Hyatt had already been linked with the proposed $294 milli...
DATE: Dec 17, 2008
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The Finance Ministry yesterday reported a drop in fuel prices.
According to a spokesperson, the maximum price for kerosene dropped 22.2 cents per litre, diesel 18.7 cents per litre, and gasoline 16.1 cents per litre.
DATE: Dec 17, 2008
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A 39-year-old man was fined $800 for a little more than five grammes of cannabis.
Rudolph Smith pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to possession of the drug, which was found during a routine traffic check in July.
According to Crown Counsel Nicole ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2008
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The Human Rights Commission this afternoon announced it had launched an inquiry into allegations of systemic discrimination against Bermudians in the construction industry.
In a statement the HRC said: “As a result of several complaints it has receiv...
DATE: Dec 17, 2008
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Lawyer Llewellyn Peniston has been suspended from legal practice for a month after admitting failing to produce his accounts for the Bermuda Bar Association.
The former UBP Senator admitted the charge in May but appealed against a three-month ban imp...
DATE: Dec 17, 2008
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A defendant who fled the Island on the second day of his trial was yesterday sentenced in his absence to seven years in prison.
Stephen Gladstone Thompson, 27, of Pembroke, had denied a charge of wounding Neville Andre Greene, 42, with intent to caus...
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The newly renovated St. George's Police Station will be open and operating next year, according to Home Affairs Minister Sen. David Burch.
Sen. Burch accepted the station's keys on Monday on behalf of the Bermuda Police Service from Minister of Works...
DATE: Dec 17, 2008
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A construction worker who received thousands of dollars in jewellery claimed he had no idea it was stolen.
In Magistrates' Court yesterday, Cedric Simons pleaded guilty to acquiring a $3,500 gold chain, a $350 Coby DVD player and five charm pendants ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2008
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A prisoner accused of a vicious assault on a fellow inmate had already been convicted of a string of violent crimes, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.
Kamel Trott's criminal record dates back to when he was aged 17 in 1994, when he received a con...
DATE: Dec 17, 2008
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