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A mentally ill conman who tried to swindle ACE out of $20 million has been jailed for five years.
Maxwell Roberts pretended to be a company director at the international firm to obtain a cheque, but was caught red-handed after suspicious staff alerte...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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Police investigating the leak of confidential files detailing alleged corruption at the Bermuda Housing Corporation raided the Bermuda Broadcasting Company offices.
Officers were granted a warrant to search the offices — two weeks after ZBM ran a sto...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
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Police are hunting two masked men who attacked and robbed American tourists at gunpoint after breaking into their guesthouse.
Yesterday at about 3 a.m. the men broke into a guesthouse in the East End — Police are not revealing which one — and attacke...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
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As Dame Lois Browne Evans brought people together in life, so she did at the end. Her funeral procession only proved what a unifying force she was, bringing together black and white, young and old, rich and poor. They all came to pay their final resp...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
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A passenger jet was forced to make an emergency landing at L. F. Wade International Airport yesterday.
Delta Air Lines flight 606 had just left Bermuda en route for Atlanta but had to turn back due to engine problems. There were more than 80 passenge...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
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The trial of a Southampton man heard allegations from his cousin that she saw him robbing and punching an American tourist after knocking him and his wife to the ground.
Paul Lamar Smith, 37, of Scenic Heights Drive, is accused of attacking Michael C...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
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A man who admitted stealing more than $100,000 during a burglary got a shorter sentence because he helped convict the Cooper twins' murderers.
When asked by a prosecutor to treat Devario Whitter more leniently due to his assistance in solving the unr...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
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A drugs mule from Aruba was jailed for nine years for bringing almost $164,000 of cocaine and heroin into Bermuda.
Egberto Marcello Pantophlet , 30, claimed he was acting through fear of a man he owed money in his home country, who threatened to harm...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
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A 23-year-old man who attacked a another man with a hammer in a supermarket in "circumstances of passion" was given a suspended prison sentence in Supreme Court.
Muhammad David Nasir, 23, of Frith Holmes Gardens, Paget, had earlier pleaded guilty to ...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
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One of Bermuda's leading pastors yesterday urged political parties to honour Dame Lois Browne Evans by putting their differences aside and tackling "abject poverty" plaguing the Island.
In a passionate speech at Dame Lois' funeral, Bishop Vernon Lamb...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
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