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The “real work” starts now to deliver a pay structure in Bermuda that aims to lift low-income workers off the breadline.
More than two years after Rolfe Commissiong, a government backbencher, first moved to launch a committee that would consider a li...
DATE: Aug 27, 2018
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Fiona McWhirter
A man was banned from the roads yesterday for 18 months after he admitted driving under the influence of drink or drugs.
Vincent Lightbourne was stopped by police in the early hours of Thursday, Magistrates’ Court heard.
Nicole Smith, for the prosecu...
DATE: Aug 25, 2018
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Fiona McWhirter
A teenager has denied taking a knife to school.
Malachi Fox appeared yesterday at Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to two charges alleged to have happened at the Berkeley Institute.
The 16-year-old is accused of having a kitchen knife with a...
DATE: Aug 24, 2018
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Fiona McWhirter
A man accused of causing a fatal boat crash in Hamilton Harbour told a court yesterday he shared the blame with others.
Andrew Lake said the collision was the fault of three vessels, including the one carrying Mary McKee, who died as a result of the ...
DATE: Aug 23, 2018
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Fiona McWhirter
My first taste of scuba diving was far from pleasurable.
I failed to find my sea legs and when I should have been getting to know the wildlife of the ocean, I was instead on deck being reacquainted with what I had for breakfast.
So it was with some t...
DATE: Aug 23, 2018
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Two pizza shop managers relived the terror of an attack yesterday by a robber who came at them with a piece of wood.
John Mark Cantil was battered with the wood and had his wallet containing $170 stolen in the early hours of yesterday morning as he a...
DATE: Aug 22, 2018
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A retired woman who fought off two bag snatchers said yesterday she felt “stronger” because she made a stand.
The 64-year-old added she had no regrets about defending herself when she was targeted by two men on a motorbike.
She admitted her attitude ...
DATE: Aug 21, 2018
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Crime
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Fiona McWhirter
A man accused of causing the death of a woman in a Hamilton Harbour boat crash told police he “just didn’t see” the vessel, a court heard yesterday.
Jurors were played a video recording of a police interview with Andrew Lake, who was questioned the d...
DATE: Aug 21, 2018
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Fiona McWhirter
Most little boys enjoy playing with toy diggers and trucks, but for three-year-old Max Correia the machines were real and his play became passion.
Now aged 24, the Devonshire resident is excited to be in a career where every day is different and he h...
DATE: Aug 20, 2018
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A skills shortage in the island’s building industry has been partly blamed on the appeal of jobs in computing and the internet.
Charles Dunstan, president of the Construction Association of Bermuda, said there remains “little success in convincing” y...
DATE: Aug 20, 2018
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