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Three schoolboys were placed on probation and fined yesterday after getting caught up in motorcycle thefts.
Two of the youths - who cannot be named - aged 14 and 15, had admitted both attempting to steal, and then the actual theft of, a motorcycle in...
DATE: Aug 22, 2002
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Prisons Commissioner John Prescod has said major staffing problems are hampering efforts to treat inmates and run the service.
And he has pledged a major overhaul of the service to make sure it is geared to reducing high recidivism rates.
He told Ham...
DATE: Aug 21, 2002
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More than a year after bringing in a policy for cutting work permit red tape for firms who are "good corporate citizens" Government is refusing to say how many have been granted special status.
The Bermuda Employers' Council (BEC), which has been cri...
DATE: Aug 21, 2002
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One month after the Mid-Ocean News published a story alleging Government's "secret bid" to hire consultants from the Canadian tax authorities to help revamp the Island's tax code, Finance Minister Eugene Cox is still waiting for a retraction.
But the...
DATE: Aug 21, 2002
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A carriage driver who was injured after his horses suddenly bolted was recovering in hospital last night after undergoing surgery to his knee.
The 65-year-old is on a general ward at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, where his condition was describe...
DATE: Aug 21, 2002
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Magistrate Carlisle Greaves jailed a man for 14 days for contempt of court after he swore at him and called him a "vampire".
Troy O'Neil Robinson, 34, of Anchorage Lane, St. George's, made the outburst after he was fined $250 for damaging a police ca...
DATE: Aug 21, 2002
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Anyone who knew Stuart David Smith as a boy would have thought he could survive anything.
Indeed, he lived the proverbial nine lives.
He almost drowned in swimming pools on a few occasions and he was run over by a car at age eight or nine.
The youngs...
DATE: Aug 21, 2002
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A nine-year-old Warwick boy was admitted to the children's ward at King Edward VII Memorial VII Hospital after he slipped off the roof at the Salt Kettle Ferry Terminal yesterday afternoon.
According to Police, the boy - believed to be from the Cobb'...
DATE: Aug 21, 2002
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Wild nights of partying cost five drunk drivers a total of $5,000 in fines and a total of six years off the road in Magistrates' Court yesterday.
Drunk driving saw one driver overturn his jeep while another one wrapped his bike around a pole. Ross Mi...
DATE: Aug 21, 2002
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Rescue heroes from the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York have been enjoying a welcome break in Bermuda.
Acting Minister of Tourism Senator David Burch held a dinner for six of the workers and their families at Cafe Lido at the Elbow Beach Ho...
DATE: Aug 21, 2002
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