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Police have reported a large rise in the number of sex offences against minors but they admit they are having trouble making the cases stick in court.
Since the introduction of laws in 1999 requiring people in positions of trust to report suspected c...
DATE: Oct 02, 2001
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The president of Bermuda College yesterday announced new targets for student success on the Island - as well as staff morale.
Dr. Michael Orenduff, who took over at the helm of the college in July, said by this time next year he wanted to see the att...
DATE: Oct 02, 2001
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The issue of consent will be the deciding factor in the sexual assault trial of a 28-year-old man, opposing counsels said yesterday as they presented their closing summaries in Supreme Court.
The man - who cannot be named for legal reasons - is accus...
DATE: Oct 02, 2001
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Acting Tourism minister Randolph Horton last night urged the community to do everything it can to help Police catch a mugger who brutally attacked a tourist outside the Fairmont Hamilton Princess on Sunday night.
The thug pulled the 68-year-old man f...
DATE: Oct 02, 2001
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An aspiring politician and marijuana activist found himself among those accused of three new criminal matters in Supreme Court's monthly arraignments session yesterday.
Gershwyn Canway Smith, 51, pleaded not guilty to three drug-related charges - pos...
DATE: Oct 02, 2001
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A New Jersey man accused of importing $59,000 of cocaine into Bermuda was found not guilty yesterday after the judge deemed there to be no case to answer.
Keith Falconer, 30, hugged his lawyer Victoria Pearman after being acquitted of three charges, ...
DATE: Oct 02, 2001
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Spending by visitors dropped by more than $25 million while the number of people working in the hotel industry sunk by 289 staff in the second quarter of the year compared to the same period last year, new statistics released by the Government show.
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DATE: Oct 02, 2001
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Radical community-based treatment could be the key to stopping child molesters from re-offending according to family psychologist Dr. Wells Hively.
He said released offenders should be electronically tagged and be forced to take lie-detector tests an...
DATE: Oct 02, 2001
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Bermuda's biggest shops have shied away from opening four days a week in the face of a major slump in sales because it would send the wrong message to the community, Chamber of Commerce president Charles Gosling said last night.
But larger retail sto...
DATE: Oct 02, 2001
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The taxi driver who threw a woman out of his cab, leaving her stranded on the side of the road, leading to her sexual assault by a passing motorist last October, will not face disciplinary action.
This according to Transport Minister, Dr. Ewart Brown...
DATE: Oct 02, 2001
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