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Today marks two weeks since Donna Simmons was woken up by two sharp crashing sounds as a mass of rock toppled behind her family home on St Monica’s Road.
Her Pembroke home is still hemmed in at its western boundary by a “landslide” that buried the ut...
DATE: Mar 01, 2019
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Legislators face a gruelling stint in the House of Assembly today as the 2019-20 Budget is debated.
Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, the One Bermuda Alliance spokeswoman for finance, will give the Opposition Reply to the Budget.
Ms Gordon-Pamplin will delive...
DATE: Mar 01, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
Kathy Simmons, the Attorney-General, plans to meet with citizens concerned over the sentencing of sex offenders next week, after a group held a gathering outside the House of Assembly today.
She assured the public that children’s well being was of “p...
DATE: Mar 01, 2019
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The Government has put together a plan for reform based on “a future forward Government for the people of Bermuda”, David Burt told Parliament this morning.
The Premier said professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and unions had been consul...
DATE: Mar 01, 2019
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
Zane DeSilva, the transport minister, condemned the crimes of David Minors, the former road safety officer, who was jailed for five years for sex offences against an underage child.
Minors was imprisoned for sex offences committed last year against a...
DATE: Feb 28, 2019
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A former government road safety officer was branded “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” as he was jailed for five years yesterday for sexual offences against an underage boy.
David Minors, 44, from Sandys, admitted sexual exploitation of a young person by a...
DATE: Feb 28, 2019
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Court
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Jonathan Bell
The media’s role in shaping perceptions of black Bermudians is among topics for discussion at an “emancipation forum” to be held on Thursday.
The Department of Community and Cultural Affairs invited the public to attend the gathering at 6pm at the Go...
DATE: Feb 27, 2019
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A former government road safety officer was jailed for five years today for sexual offences involving an underage boy.
David Minors admitted sexual exploitation of a young person by a person in a position of trust, and two counts of showing offensive...
DATE: Feb 26, 2019
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Court
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Jonathan Bell
A host of racial reparations have been proposed by the group Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, which has issued its 2019 racial justice platform.
The group called for the Bermuda Government to join the reparations commission of Caricom, to “seek ...
DATE: Feb 26, 2019
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Police are investigating a “suspicious incident” at a Warwick business yesterday.
Staff at the The Hub on Middle Road described the matter, which was caught on camera, as a suspected armed robbery attempt.
Gavin Kennedy, owner of the business which s...
DATE: Feb 26, 2019
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell