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Near St. Paul’s Cathedral near the center of London stands a grand and majestic courthouse. The Old Bailey is considered the symbolic home of the British criminal justice system. It’s part of our shared legal heritage. The common law tradition a legal system based on the precedent of the cases before it was brought to the American colonies and independently planted here in the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Unlike many historic courthouses, the one on Central Criminal Court is fully functional. And it began the year with a bombshell.
The case began in 2018 when the United States charged Julian Assange, the co-founder of WikiLeaks a website disseminating classified documents and diplomatic cables revealing intelligence secrets with violating the Espionage Act. The problem was that Assange was in London.
With no reservation system in place, lines and crowds return to Hanauma Bay
With no reservation system in place, lines and crowds return to Hanauma Bay By Mark Carpenter | December 31, 2020 at 3:06 PM HST - Updated December 31 at 4:32 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Just weeks after it reopened to visitors, long lines and massive crowds are now the norm at Hanauma Bay.
After the months-long closure of the bay provided a breath of fresh air for the bayâs wildlife, the number of people allowed at the world-famous nature preserve was capped at 720 daily.
But New Yearâs Eve was particularly busy, as visitors showed up early to get inside âeven though they still had to wait for an extended period of time.
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UHERO s 2021 economic forecast
As we head into 2021, one of the questions we all have is, How is Hawaii s economy going to do in the new year? We talked about that with one of the state s leading economists - Carl Bonham, executive director of the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization. He s also on the state Council on Revenues and he s part of the House Select Committee on COVID-19 Economic and Financial Preparedness. We spoke recently about the year ahead, but before President Trump had signed the latest federal COVID relief bill. Bonham says that continued federal support is a critical part of 2021. And while economic forecasting is always a tricky business, he does see some positives coming later in the year.