FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3: A 24-year-old man has appeared in court in connection with a shooting on Court Street last year. Alvone Maybury is accused of being involved in the shooting of Troy “Yankee” Rawlins in December 2009.
Ordinary Bermudians are caught in the middle of an immigration cycle that keeps wages low and rents high, a Bermuda Sun Labour Day report shows. International business has brought thousands of well-paid ‘money-no-object’ renters, often buoyed by large housing allowance payments, keeping rents among the highest in the world.
Developers have submitted detailed plans to build a state-of the-art Park Hyatt Hotel in St. George’s. The proposals — outlining the construction of a 100-room hotel, condominiums and villas on the site of the old Club Med — were handed in to the Department of Planning on Wednesday.
A disgruntled employee has been jailed for seven years for stealing from his boss and setting fire to her store. Homeless Neil Trott broke into Mitra Johnston’s business and stole an antique roulette wheel after she told him she had no more work for him.
A man has appeared in court accused of causing the death of heart transplant survivor Earl Ingemann. Quincy Brangman, 31, is charged with driving while impaired when the fatal accident happened in the early hours of January 1.
An overturned powerboat found out at sea belonged to a luxury yacht that visited Bermuda in July. The vessel was spotted bobbing up and down in the waves near Mills Beacon, around four miles off St. George’s, at 1:30pm on Wednesday.
