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Hundreds of comments were made on a forum set up to canvas opinion on the Government’s proposals for a regulated cannabis regime, the Minister of Legal Affairs said today.
Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and legal affairs minister, added tha...
DATE: Jul 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An antiracism group said yesterday that proposed changes to Bermuda’s jury selection process should be “only the beginning”.
Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda welcomed amendments tabled in Parliament last week after Chief Justice Narinder Hargun s...
DATE: Jul 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A complaint about a boat trip alleged to have involved members of the Government and a breach of curfew rules was “unfounded”, police said last night.
The Government insisted earlier that the private event “began and ended” in line with the law in pl...
DATE: Jul 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Premier has said that the legacies of two American civil rights pioneers were “secured” as he marked their deaths.
David Burt paid tribute to John Lewis, a Georgia congressman, and the Reverend C.T. Vivian, who was a Baptist minister and field ge...
DATE: Jul 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A total of 11 coronavirus test results are still “pending confirmation”, the Government said last night.
The news came as 573 test results came back to the Ministry of Health and all were clear. Bermuda has had 153 cases. Seven of them are active, bu...
DATE: Jul 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Police called on residents yesterday to come forward with information related to a murder three years ago.
Jahcari Francis, 20, was shot dead in a home on Upland Street in Devonshire at about 11pm on July 19, 2017.
Detective Sergeant Jason Smith, the...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The mother of a teenager who took her own life at an American treatment centre said she had “no real answers” about what happened to her daughter eight months after she died.
Johnita Simons explained that she contacted agencies in Bermuda as well as ...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Minister of Public Works asked residents to show their support for his “adopted daughter” who MPs heard is on a “zero dollar” contract to help in the battle against Covid-19.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch told the House of Assembly on Friday tha...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A teenager was remembered on what would have been her 18th birthday yesterday by a fundraising effort to help prevent young suicide.
Johnita Simons launched the online campaign as part of her daughter Kirsta’s “legacy”.
She wrote: “As a mother of a c...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A war of words broke out between MPs over a police probe into a dairy container that carried drugs.
Derrick Burgess, the Deputy Speaker and a Progressive Labour Party member, claimed on Friday that white privilege stopped Michael Dunkley, a One Bermu...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter