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A would-be MP was engulfed in a storm of controversy after a clip from a satire show, where he played down the use of pepper spray during a protest, resurfaced yesterday.
Dwayne Robinson, a One Bermuda Alliance senator is due to go head-to-head with ...
DATE: Nov 20, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Warwick Academy students showed their school spirit for Giving Tuesday yesterday, starting with students dressing in blue, the school colour.
Jane Vickers, the school’s director of development, said the school’s annual giving day had taken a new twis...
DATE: Nov 20, 2019
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Parents were reminded to help enforce standards at childcare centres as Bermuda marks World Children’s Day today.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the Department of Health had enhanced its oversight of daycare and increased the number of visits ...
DATE: Nov 20, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
A “superhero” horse that brought joy to people with special needs for decades has died, a charity announced yesterday.
Christine Kempe, the executive director of the WindReach outdoor centre for the disabled, said Dusty, who was 28, died on Wednesday...
DATE: Nov 19, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
Jason Hayward, a government senator, has been replaced by Lloyquita Symonds as president of the Bermuda Public Services Union.
A statement this morning from Edward Ball, the general secretary of the BPSU, announced that Mr Hayward would not be runnin...
DATE: Nov 19, 2019
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Christmas is coming to the West End with an “epic” festive season planned for Dockyard, according to the West End Development Corporation.
Stephanie Rodill, Wedco’s marketing and events manager, said “everyone will find something to enjoy” in the qua...
DATE: Nov 19, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
The Festival of Lights, a popular holiday fundraiser, is returning this year to the Botanical Gardens.
Belco announced this morning that the festive favourite, which was launched in 1996, would be back on Saturday nights for this year’s holiday seaso...
DATE: Nov 19, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
A transsexual Bermudian human rights activist who said she had been driven from the island by discrimination has died in Britain, where she spent the last years of her life.
Brenda Smith died, aged 85, last month.
Ms Smith campaigned for Bermuda’s hu...
DATE: Nov 16, 2019
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Other
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Jonathan Bell
The Premier said he would push the Speaker of the House to deliver a written ruling to justify his decision to halt his ministerial statement yesterday on the floor of the House.
Mr Burt and Speaker Dennis Lister clashed when Mr Burt tried to get Mr ...
DATE: Nov 16, 2019
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Both the Premier and the Leader of the Opposition were disciplined by the Speaker of the House yesterday in chaotic scenes in the House of Assembly.
David Burt was ordered by Speaker Dennis Lister to stop reading a ministerial statement — and earlier...
DATE: Nov 16, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell