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alternatives to prison sentences deserves the support of the whole community.
Few will disagree that the current system of imprisonment is not working. The problem of people going to prison for fairly minor crimes -- because there is no alternative -...
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Government is in a "desperate'' financial situation because of widespread increased spending, it has been claimed.
With all departments being asked to make cuts of around five percent, Shadow Finance Minister Grant Gibbons said he believed the leader...
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Montessori Academy expects to renew the lease for its school with the Bermuda National Trust and has therefore shelved its expansion plans.
"We have a wonderful relationship with the Trust and we anticipate amicable relations,'' said principal Margar...
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help tally up every person in Bermuda.
Posts up for grabs include trainers, supervisors, enumerators, editors and coders.
Chief Statistician Janet Smith-Bradshaw said 46 trainers, who must be educated to college level and have instructing or teaching...
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workplace.
Twenty-three-year-old Shekiah Denise Washington pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court yesterday to stealing approximately $5,050 on August 30 last year from the Grotto Bay Hotel in Hamilton Parish.
She also pleaded guilty to altering the de...
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prison for failing to pay more than $1,000 in traffic fines.
Warwick resident Keith McPherson, 25, became violent and had to be restrained by a Police officer and a prison guard when Magistrate Edward King ordered him to be taken into custody for nea...
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Punching a man and pushing another has earned a homeless man a six-month prison sentence.
After a night in a Police cell, Cannoth Roberts pleaded guilty last week before Acting Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner to punching George Kelly on the evenin...
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former addicts, Government Ministers and business people are among those who have come together to draw up a blueprint for dealing with crime.
So many different sectors of the community have been invited to join the initiative looking at alternatives...
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A crack cocaine dealer had his term in prison increased from three years to five yesterday on appeal at the Supreme Court.
Macray Bulford was imprisoned last year for three years and two years, to run concurrently, for possession of the drug and poss...
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Despite the controversy over the recent revaluation of land, Government has received a relatively low number of objections.
And, according to Land Valuation Officer Chris Farrow, many are asking for their ratings to be increased.
But many homeowners ...
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