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Measures, including putting work permits on hold, could be brought to bear against employers who manipulate worker contracts to dodge basic employee benefits.
Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, said yesterday that he aimed to safeguard worke...
DATE: Oct 19, 2018
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
One of five teens accused in the murder of Bermudian Lyrico Steede has been linked to a mobile phone left in a taxi on the night of his attack, Nottingham Crown Court heard yesterday.
Mr Steede, 17, died in hospital on February 21 after being repeate...
DATE: Oct 18, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Sports clubs are to receive cheap loans from the Bermuda Government to enhance their venues.
The loans, ranging from $2,500 to $25,000, will come from a pool of $150,000 allocated to the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation.
The programme, a prom...
DATE: Oct 18, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A plague of rats in the Botanical Gardens has been tackled by government pest controllers after complaints from the public.
Parents said rats have scared park users near the children’s play area in the Paget park, which is Bermuda’s biggest.
A mother...
DATE: Oct 18, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The family of a 14-year-old schoolgirl with a serious heart condition beat their $10,000 target to pay for urgent medical tests in America just hours after her story was highlighted by The Royal Gazette.
Big-hearted donors, including an anonymous Goo...
DATE: Oct 17, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Everard Davis, a trailblazing broadcaster who managed ZFB, Bermuda’s second television station, has died. Mr Davis was 79.
Mr Davis was also the first manager of the Liberty Theatre cinema, opened by the Bermuda Industrial Union in 1987.
His daughter...
DATE: Oct 17, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s new Oleander cargo ship has been launched at a shipyard in China, Bermuda Container Line said yesterday.
John Wight, the chairman of BCL, said the ship slid down Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group’s slipway in Jingjiang on the Yangtze R...
DATE: Oct 16, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A woman walking her dog saw people running and one fall over the night Bermudian teenager Lyrico Steede suffered fatal stab wounds in a park in England.
Natasha Hannon told Nottingham Crown Court yesterday that she and her husband saw three young men...
DATE: Oct 16, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s tenpin bowling queen Hattieann Gilbert has immortalised her story in a new book.
Bowling My Way: 1962–1987 traces Ms Gilbert’s career from a chance encounter with the sport to bowling stardom.
She said: “It’s my legacy and it’s been worth ...
DATE: Oct 16, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A 14-year-old girl who has suffered from a life-threatening heart problem since birth has to return to the United States for urgent tests, her mother said yesterday.
Now the family have launched an appeal for public help to raise $10,000 to help sing...
DATE: Oct 16, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell