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A businesswoman will continue her father’s work for the Corporation of St George after she won an election to represent the town as a councillor.
Cyniqua Anderson beat Mark Soares by more than three votes to one at the polls yesterday.
She is the dau...
DATE: Feb 06, 2019
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Troops will be out in force at a telecoms business this weekend as they practise public-order skills.
Sixty soldiers from the Royal Bermuda Regiment are to take part in an exercise at the Link Bermuda headquarters in Devonshire.
The manoeuvres are pa...
DATE: Feb 06, 2019
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Prison officer patrols around Westgate prison will be stepped up after a drone was seen hovering above the facility.
Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, said plans were being drawn up to make the area around the Ireland Island North pris...
DATE: Feb 06, 2019
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A child sex offender is to be released from prison in less than a week, the legal affairs minister announced yesterday.
Kathy Lynn Simmons, who is also the Attorney-General, said Melvin Martin will be freed from Westgate prison on Sunday.
Charities w...
DATE: Feb 05, 2019
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A new partnership built between landlords and an island charity will mean rundown rented homes can be repaired.
Sheelagh Cooper, the chairwoman of Habitat for Humanity Bermuda, said: “Over the past few years we have come across so many homes and espe...
DATE: Feb 05, 2019
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Voters will go to the polls today to elect the newest member to the Corporation of St George.
They will choose between Cyniqua Anderson and Mark Soares for the position of councillor. Both are East End businesspeople who agreed that the people of St ...
DATE: Feb 05, 2019
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Prayers were offered for swift repairs to a Warwick church after part of its ceiling fell in.
Services at St Mary the Virgin have been moved to a hall until the damage is fixed.
A statement on the Anglican church’s Facebook page said: “Sadly, this we...
DATE: Feb 04, 2019
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Lawyers for Ewart Brown, a doctor and former premier, have called for an investigation after they alleged police used sensitive patient information to pressure a potential witness as part of an inquiry into his medical practices.
They wrote to John R...
DATE: Jan 31, 2019
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Fines and warnings for failures to bag garbage in line with recycling rules could be introduced if ministers make greener trash collection compulsory.
Talks are under way with government lawyers to establish if they would prosecute people who failed ...
DATE: Jan 26, 2019
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The island’s only vehicle emissions test firm will be left in “chaos” when it is stripped of its contract to carry out checks for Transport Control Department, it was claimed yesterday.
Staff at Bermuda Emissions Control Ltd, which employs 13, said t...
DATE: Jan 25, 2019
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