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The Bermuda Hospitals Board is haemorrhaging cash through unearned overtime payments to senior doctors, it has been claimed.
Complaints have been filed against one doctor accused of regularly walking off the job after completion of his rounds midway ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2020
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The president of the Bermuda Industrial Union yesterday defended dock-workers who downed tools after a colleague was suspended.
Chris Furbert said that 32 union members at Hamilton Docks took action last Thursday after relations with management compa...
DATE: Nov 27, 2020
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News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Former government minister and real estate agent Leonard Gibbons has died.
Mr Gibbons was 82.
Mr Gibbons’s daughter, Susan Gray, said her father was an honest and generous man who was very outgoing in his public life.
Ms Gray added: “Dad was a people...
DATE: Nov 27, 2020
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News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A seventh Bermuda Hospitals Board staff member has tested positive for the coronavirus, it has been confirmed.
The staff member was one of two new cases identified by Government yesterday.
A BHB spokeswoman said: “One of the cases reported by Governm...
DATE: Nov 26, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Hamilton dock-workers returned to work yesterday after the Government stepped in to bring six days of disruptions to an end.
Staff were ordered to return to work on Tuesday night after Jason Hayward, the labour minister, referred the dispute to the L...
DATE: Nov 26, 2020
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News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Hamilton dock-workers were last night ordered back to work by Labour Minister Jason Hayward after mediation efforts to end the seven-day slowdown on the docks failed.
A Government statement said mediation efforts over “the last few days” had failed...
DATE: Nov 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Police have launched an inquiry after an allegation of theft from the offices of the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses.
The Royal Gazette understands that intruders are suspected of rifling through documents and files stored at the comm...
DATE: Nov 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermuda’s top magistrate has hit back at claims that the court system is riddled with inefficiencies and incompetence.
Juan Wolffe, the senior magistrate, defended the lower court after top lawyer Jerome Lynch QC claimed lat week that defendants on t...
DATE: Nov 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A man charged with concealment of gun in a parcel shipped to Bermuda was caught on camera at the offices of the US courier from where the contraband was sent, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.
James Rumley, of Spring Benny Road, Sandys, has pleaded ...
DATE: Nov 24, 2020
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News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A man jailed for three years for a string of sex offences against a schoolgirl has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal.
Kenneth Williams was found guilty of offences against a child under the age of 14 last year.
But lawyers asked for t...
DATE: Nov 23, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan