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Waiting for bank transactions to “clear” overnight just became a thing of the past for businesses yesterday with the launch of the Bank of Bermuda's GlobalConnect Internet banking service.
The bank's business customers, large and small are assured of...
DATE: Oct 15, 2002
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Famed Harvard University palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould - who nailed down the natural history of the presumed extinct Bermuda Land Snail genus - has died at his home in New York after a long battle with cancer.
The 60-year-old unlocked the mysteri...
DATE: May 21, 2002
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Spot quiz: What Bermudian came second in his height class in the 1966 Mr. World competition?
Answer: Burnell Muhammad.
After 14 years living in Italy and travelling the world, the bodybuilder and highly skilled martial arts teacher returned to the Is...
DATE: Mar 14, 2002
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"It's on!" is how new concert promoter Dennis (Mertz) Richardson describes Saturday night's "Hip Hop Explosion in Paradise" concert at St. David's Cricket Club field - the first by major rappers in four years.
"It's definitely on," Mr. Richardson say...
DATE: Aug 01, 2001
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ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands (AP) -- Three American men charged in the murder of a Connecticut artist were acquitted, leaving a New York financial adviser -- represented by former Bermuda Bar Association President Richard Hector QC -- to stand t...
DATE: May 04, 2001
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biography of Attorney General Dame Lois Browne Evans.
Bermudian author and educator Randi Williams not only tackles the career of Bermuda's first female barrister, first black female Member of Parliament, first female opposition leader and first poli...
DATE: Apr 30, 2001
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A misunderstanding about the rules governing Preliminary Inquiries (PI) in Magistrates' Court led to a legal showdown.
Lawyer Ann Cartwright got Magistrate Edward King to explain that he had never banned the media from his courtroom -- as had been br...
DATE: Mar 21, 2001
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A man and his girlfriend walked wearily from Magistrates' Court on Monday after learning that the teen who blinded him in one eye was given a suspended sentence and a $1,000 fine for the attack.
Idrin Izion Paynter said nothing and did not acknowledg...
DATE: Mar 21, 2001
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pleaded guilty to two break-ins and admitted having a drug problem.
Terry Leon Robinson shrugged his shoulders as Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner said he would order a social inquiry report into why, at age 44, he would begin housebreaking.
Robins...
DATE: Mar 10, 2001
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while probation officers and his lawyer try and get him in a juvenile facility in Utah for a sex crime.
Shawn Mark Nusum, of Smith's Avenue, has been on remand since last autumn for an attack on another boy as the pair walked home last year.
Nusum wa...
DATE: Mar 10, 2001
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