Archive for March 30th, 2019

Rivers handed 35-year tariff for Super ‘C’ murder

Rivers handed 35-year tariff for Super ‘C’ murder

| 30/03/2019 | 16 Comments

(CNS): William Ian Rivers (40) will serve at least 35 years in jail for the murder in January 2017 of Mark Travis “Hubba” Seymour, whom he gunned down in broad daylight at Super ‘C’s, a well known West Bay restaurant. In a brief summary of his sentencing decision delivered via video link on Friday, Justice […]

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500,000 iguanas culled but more hands needed

500,000 iguanas culled but more hands needed

| 30/03/2019 | 37 Comments

(CNS): Although the current team of cullers bagged more than half a million invasive green iguanas in the first six months of the island-wide operation, the Department of Environment is calling on more people to train and register in order to make sure there is not an explosion in the population as the breeding season […]

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Car thieves still ‘choosing’ Honda civics

Car thieves still ‘choosing’ Honda civics

| 30/03/2019 | 7 Comments

(CNS) UPDATED: Police have recovered the latest stolen Honda, in the Prospect area of George Town. As local auto-thieves still go after the Civic model police reported  on Friday that this car had been stolen from the Strand area in Seven Mile Beach. The silver-grey 1999 Honda Civic registration #106 289 was stolen from the […]

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Lobo gets 16 years for drug smuggling

Lobo gets 16 years for drug smuggling

| 30/03/2019 | 41 Comments

(CNS): Former customs officer David Karl Lobo (33) was handed a sixteen-year jail term on Friday by acting Grand Court judge, Dame Justice Dobbs, who described him as an intelligent man who played a leading role in the cocaine smuggling operation for which he was convicted earlier this year. Lobo was the only one of […]

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Brexit day passes after politicians fail to find solution

Brexit day passes after politicians fail to find solution

| 30/03/2019 | 2 Comments

(CNS): When the people of Britain work up Saturday morning, the country was still a member of the European Union, despite ‘Brexit day’ coming and going on Friday. Almost three years after the fateful referendum result in June 2016 and two years after Prime Minister Theresa May triggered Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon […]

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