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An 80-year-old man who sexually abused his two step-granddaughters was jailed for 16 months yesterday.
The paedophile ? who cannot be named for legal reasons ? preyed on one of the youngsters for more than three years, Magistrates? Court heard.
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DATE: Feb 02, 2006
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Premier Alex Scott?s approval ratings have risen slightly with 33.8 percent of people quizzed in a recent poll pleased with the way he is handling his job.
The figure is an improvement on last November when only 31.9 percent of people approved of his...
DATE: Feb 01, 2006
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An Opposition MP has repeated her call for the Child Abuse Register, seven years in the making, to be extended in order to include offenders convicted prior to 2005.
Shadow Minister of Women?s Affairs and Child and Family Services Suzanne Roberts-Hol...
DATE: Feb 01, 2006
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United Bermuda Party Leader Wayne Furbert is planning to extend an olive branch to the PLP if he wins the next election ? by offering a member of the ousted Government a seat in his Cabinet.
He admitted the controversial plan might come as a shock to...
DATE: Feb 01, 2006
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The welfare of a baby girl who died aged only five-months last week had been under the watch of the Department of Child and Family Services until last November, it has been confirmed.
The department was still looking out for the child?s care when the...
DATE: Feb 01, 2006
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An American who lost consciousness on a flight diverted to Bermuda on Monday night was pronounced dead on arrival at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
William Hess, 68, of Fenwick Island, Delaware, was onboard a Boeing 757 from San Juan, Puerto Rico...
DATE: Feb 01, 2006
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Kenneth Burgess? brutal baseball bat attack on the Cooper twins was ?vigilante justice?, a court heard yesterday.
Burgess thought the brothers were part of the gang who robbed his father two years? earlier, Senior Crown counsel Paula Tyndale told the...
DATE: Feb 01, 2006
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Bermuda's political leaders united in sadness yesterday at the news of the passing of Mrs. Coretta Scott-King, wife of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King.
Mrs. Scott-King died, aged 78, in her sleep during the night at an alternative me...
DATE: Feb 01, 2006
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Jurors in the Cooper twins murder trial were yesterday urged to acquit Kenneth Burgess of double murder.
His lawyer Courtenay Griffiths QC said the Crown?s case that Burgess launched a violent baseball bat attack on Jahmal and Jahmil contained gaps a...
DATE: Feb 01, 2006
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Developer scales back on Hamptons project
The Hamptons development has sought Planning approval to make 12 of its St. Anne?s Road, Southampton, units smaller.
Kevin Cross applied for revisions to new construction at the location.
Mr. Cross, managing ...
DATE: Feb 01, 2006
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