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to an Independent senator accidentally voting in favour of a controversial funeral home limousine service Act.
The Act would have been blocked six to five if Sen. Jeanette Cannonier had not got it wrong.
The Royal Gazette understands from political s...
DATE: Aug 14, 1999
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concurrent to an 18-month sentence he is currently serving.
Meanwhile, a Hamilton Parish man who had cannabis was fined $750 or ordered to serve 70 days in prison in default.
Roger Eugene Lightbourne pleaded guilty yesterday to possessing cocaine at ...
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same unions as the rank-and-file could be in the offing.
Home Affairs and Public Safety Minister Paula Cox did not rule out a redrawing of the Act after it was knocked back by Senate.
She said: "It's obviously disappointing -- but it's out of my hand...
DATE: Aug 14, 1999
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By Graveney Bannister A Supreme Court drugs trial came to an abrupt halt yesterday after the judge learned that a juror nodded at one of the accused.
Puisne Judge Norma Wade-Miller discharged the jury after only one day of the drug trial of Richard ...
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A union ban on overtime could be steering the docks towards chaos as it gears up for its largest shipment ever.
Workers at Stevedoring Services have refused to do extra hours this weekend -- just as the Hamilton depot prepares to welcome 1,000 tonnes...
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drug record until last year.
Truck driver Neville St. Clair Tucker, of Wellman Lane, Southampton, was released yesterday on $2,000 bail with a condition he report to Hamilton Police Station twice a week.
Tucker pleaded guilty before Senior Magistrate...
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And at least one top prison official has recommended that the Offenders Substance Abuse Programme (OSAP) should be made mandatory.
Acting Prisons Commissioner Hubert Dean told The Royal Gazette that when the programme began last autumn prisoners were...
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A trouble-shooter has been brought into the Government-run Stonington Beach Hotel which lost $275,000 last year.
And the resort is expected to soon have its first union contract in ten years.
Leon O'Brien, a Bermudian, is helping to turn the unprofit...
DATE: Aug 13, 1999
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repairs, Minister Alex Scott has revealed.
He was speaking in response to a Letter to the Editor, complaining of lengthy delays at accident sites at Flatts Bridge in Hamilton Parish and Harbour Road in Warwick.
The letter writer also took aim at impr...
DATE: Aug 13, 1999
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The Residential Care Homes and Nursing Homes Act 1999 -- proposed by Sen.
Calvin Smith (PLP) -- sets out provisions for the regulation of care for the aged.
Sen. Smith said currently such care fell within The Public Health Act and it was felt that th...
DATE: Aug 13, 1999
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