When Pembroke West voters went to by-election polls last year to elect a new MP, fewer than ten percent of eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 35 turned out to vote, according to at least one of the candidates.
Yet the 6,117 eligible voters ag...
DATE: Jan 21, 1998 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Patrick Burgess
yesterday offered bail of $50,000 by a judge in Atlanta.
But Wolde Place and Austin Simons were both remanded in custody pending someone coming up with the cash and ordered to appear again at Fulton County Magistrates' Court next week.
According to l...
DATE: Jan 21, 1998 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
from UK Dependent Territories which starts tomorrow.
And a solid blue line of Bermuda Police officers will provide maximum security for the two-day event at the Hamilton Princess, hosted by Premier Pamela Gordon and involving Government chiefs from f...
DATE: Jan 21, 1998 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
20, 21 and 22.
The National Black Touring Circuit scored a big hit with its 1992 production of "Williams and Walker''. Now the group is back, this time with a domestic comedy by Ron Milner that is laced with laughter but is also probing and often poi...
Complicated, talented and difficult, Princess Louise was once also compared by her governess with a stormy day. "She was stormy one minute and sunny the next -- a bit like Bermuda!'' says Jocelyn Motyer Raymond, guest curator of the Bermuda National ...
Hundreds of union members are to vote in presidential elections at the Bermuda Public Services Association next month.
More than 700 of the 2,500 members eligible to vote will choose between reigning president Leleath Bailey and BPSA veteran Betty Ch...
Provisional estimates for the third quarter of 1997 said Bermuda recorded a balance of payments surplus on current account of $85 million, some $38 million higher than the same period a year before.
The estimates put the total balance of payments pic...
DATE: Jan 19, 1998 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: David Fox, Business Editor
A man yesterday claimed that he lied in a Police statement out of fear for his safety.
During the second day of a Police assault trial in Magistrates' Court, complainant Harvey Elswood Williams, Jr. testified that after an alleged beating by Police h...
Teachers have yet to hear about Government's comprehensive security plan for schools.
Bermuda Union of Teachers president Michael Charles disclosed this yesterday after a 15-year-old CedarBridge Academy student was stabbed at the school for reportedl...
The trial of two Police officers charged with assaulting a man in custody got underway yesterday in Magistrates' Court.
Det. Con. Terrance Gift, 41, and P.c. Shannon Wolffe, 30, both of Pembroke are being tried together for unlawfully assaulting Harv...
