110922 results returned for search: "" category ("Other" AND "News")
A brain-injury victim who needs his pedal cycle to help with his rehabilitation was left shocked and angry after it was stolen.
Jason Fostine-DeSilva spent three months in a coma after a motorbike smash in 1986, which left him semi-quadriplegic.
Defy...
DATE: Jan 17, 2006
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Police evidence gathering was thrust under the spotlight during the Cooper twins murder trial yesterday.
As the high-profile case entered its second week, the head of the Forensic Support Unit took to the witness stand amid allegations key evidence w...
DATE: Jan 17, 2006
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Two pit bull terriers that savaged a 70-year-old woman's pet dog to death on Christmas morning have been put to sleep.
The killer dogs attacked wheelchair-bound Mary Janette Burgess's Highland Terrier Prince while he was tethered to a leash in her ga...
DATE: Jan 17, 2006
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
A plurality of respondents to an online poll believe Bermuda should have a third party.
In the wake of plans by activist Khalid Wasi to form a party called the All Bermuda Congress and by Mitchell Watson to form the Bermuda People?s Party, users of t...
DATE: Jan 17, 2006
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
The Bermuda Police Service recently announced the promotion of seven officers to Sergeant.: Sergeant Simons has been a serving officer in the Bermuda Police Service for nine years. He has served in the Eastern Uniform Division, Traffic Enforcement, P...
DATE: Jan 16, 2006
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
etting out his stall yesterday, newly-crowned Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert made it clear that the change at the top of the United Bermuda Party was a "natural progression" not a coup that saw Dr. Gibbons elbowed out.
"I would use the terminology t...
DATE: Jan 16, 2006
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
A 35-year-old man was sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing his live-in companion in November.
Kenneth Simmons, of Pitts Bay Road, arrived home on November 27 in a drunken state and proceeded to stab his female companion in the back.
The wo...
DATE: Jan 16, 2006
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
On what would have been his 23rd birthday the family of murdered student Shaundae Jones are furious at the inaction of hostile and insensitive prosecutors. Shaundae Jones was shot to death in Dockyard on April 27, 2003 at the age of 20 but his murder...
DATE: Jan 16, 2006
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Dr. Grant Gibbons has been ousted as leader of the United Bermuda Party, with Deputy Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert voted in to the top job by the parliamentary caucus.
Months of public speculation and internal talks about the leadership of the Oppo...
DATE: Jan 16, 2006
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Jay Butler, son of Community and Cultural Affairs Minister Dale Butler, is the 2006 Rhodes Scholar.
Oxford-bound Jay is currently finishing his Harvard history thesis which concentrates on race relations in Bermuda.
Before attending Harvard, he achie...
DATE: Jan 16, 2006
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
