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Acting Prisons Commissioner Edwin Wilson has promised to investigate claims that an inmate was released from the prison farm despite a urine test which showed he had drugs in his system.
An officer told The Royal Gazette a report about the test had n...
DATE: Mar 27, 2002
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Receivers for the closed White Sands Hotel are hopeful it will be sold within 30 days and re-open shortly after in time for this year's tourism season.
Twelve business groups from Bermuda, the United States and Canada have expressed strong interest i...
DATE: Mar 27, 2002
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A launch party for the Bermuda International Film Festival (BIFF) will be held tonight at the Elbow Beach Hotel.
Fifty-five feature films from 16 countries will be screened over the week of April 12 through 18, in addition to parties and a full-slate...
DATE: Mar 27, 2002
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Home Affairs Minister Terry Lister has hit back at allegations made in the electronic media that work release inmates had been employed to do private work.
VSB said yesterday that a member of the public had complained that prisoners were working on a...
DATE: Mar 27, 2002
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Seventeen Bermuda Regiment soldiers were taken to hospital and x-rayed when they returned from camp in Jamaica on Saturday after Police received a tip-off that they were carrying drugs.
Drug sniffer dogs detected the smell of cannabis from the soldie...
DATE: Mar 27, 2002
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The Progressive Labour Party is recommending that a revamped single seat electoral map for Bermuda contain 32 constituencies.
Party supporters have been sworn to secrecy over the details of the submission - which was revealed to key players as well a...
DATE: Mar 27, 2002
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Author, educator and boyfriend of one of America's most popular television hosts Stedman Graham wowed Cabinet members and the audience at the ATI conference yesterday with his presentation on how to make life happen.
The long-time boyfriend of TV tal...
DATE: Mar 27, 2002
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As the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries heads towards extinction next week its Director, John Barnes, has been mulling his future career options.
As of Monday, the department will be officially disbanded and replaced by two new departments - C...
DATE: Mar 27, 2002
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Drugs are being taken by up to 70 percent of prison farm inmates, an officer has alleged.
He said heroin and cocaine was being smuggled in by work release inmates at the St. George's facility and hard-pressed officers did not have the equipment to na...
DATE: Mar 27, 2002
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A Pembroke man convicted of having sex with an under-age girl was freed on Monday after the Court of Appeal quashed the case because the trial judge misdirected the jury.
The 33-year-old was found guilty last year of having unlawful carnal knowledge ...
DATE: Mar 27, 2002
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