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The future looks bright for promising mechanical engineer Sekai Wainwright-Basden.
The CedarBridge Academy student will graduate from high school this month, hot on the heels of graduating with merit from Bermuda College on May 17.
Juggling college c...
DATE: Jun 04, 2018
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Bermuda will be able to send prison inmates with mental disorders overseas for treatment under legislation approved last week in Parliament.
Health minister Kim Wilson told MPs the legislation would help persons requiring “special psychiatric treatme...
DATE: Jun 04, 2018
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Jonathan Bell
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley issued a statement this afternoon thanking Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, for new court rules and legislation to improve court proceedings.
Ms Simmons, the Government Senate Leader, “safely piloted” the Evidence A...
DATE: Jun 03, 2018
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Popular Hamilton businesswoman Annie Young has died at the age of 79.
David Burt, the Premier, paid tribute to the owner of the True Reflections store yesterday in Parliament.
Mr Burt said the Mount Hill, Pembroke resident was a stalwart of the Progr...
DATE: Jun 02, 2018
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The electoral clean sweep in Barbados was democracy in action, according to Carl Neblett, president of the Barbados Association of Bermuda.
Mia Mottley, the daughter of former Bermuda Attorney-General Elliott Mottley, and her Barbados Labour Party to...
DATE: Jun 02, 2018
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The Regulatory Authority has backed hi-tech smart meters installed by power firm Belco.
The authority said yesterday that the meters comply with safety standards set by the United States Federal Communications Commission.
The authority will carry out...
DATE: Jun 02, 2018
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Bermuda’s Portuguese community was “ecstatic” after it was announced yesterday that a public holiday next year will mark the 170th anniversary of the arrival of the first immigrants from Madeira.
Andrea Moniz-DeSouza, the Honorary Portuguese Consul, ...
DATE: Jun 02, 2018
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Jonathan Bell
Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, accused Commissioner of Police Michael DeSilva of poor succession planning yesterday after three Bermudians were overlooked in the hunt for his replacement.
Mr Caines said they had applied to replace M...
DATE: Jun 02, 2018
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
A violence reduction programme is under way in Bermuda’s prisons, national security minister Wayne Caines told Parliament this morning.
The programme has been completed by six inmates in Westgate, Mr Caines said.
The four- to six-month programme is b...
DATE: Jun 01, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Proposed legislation to tax and regulate people who rent their homes to visitors was welcomed yesterday by the Bermuda Tourism Authority.
But Michael Cranfield, of Vacation Rentals Bermuda, said the Vacation Rentals Bill 2018 is “alarming” to some ow...
DATE: May 31, 2018
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell