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The Department of Parks moves tomorrow to a new location on the ground floor of Global House, Hamilton.
The office will have limited administrative services on Friday and Monday as its team consolidates from various locations.
The office opens for fu...
DATE: Apr 06, 2017
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The Bermuda Industrial Union is expected to show strong support for the first protesters summoned to Magistrates’ Court today.
Last night, BIU members settled in for a lengthy debate about the issue and their course of action.
A full house turned out...
DATE: Apr 05, 2017
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Court
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Jonathan Bell
Bermudian lawyer Jonathan White’s Call to the Bar ceremony perpetuated a family legacy going back to his ancestor Anthony White, who served as the island’s chief justice from 1706 to 1708.
The new attorney also had the distinction of being welcomed t...
DATE: Apr 04, 2017
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Government healthcare premiums are set for a modest drop for “the first time in many years”, health minister Jeanne Atherden has announced.
Opening Public Health Week yesterday, Ms Atherden said that the decline in premiums, just over $4, would come ...
DATE: Apr 04, 2017
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Health
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Jonathan Bell
Bill Shields has been appointed chief financial officer of the Bermuda Hospitals Board after “an extensive local and international recruitment process”, BHB announced today.
Mr Shields’ designation comes at a time of “major challenges” for BHB to rei...
DATE: Apr 03, 2017
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Health
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Jonathan Bell
Randy Horton, the Speaker of the House, said that the decision for Parliament to go ahead after he initially postponed it because of protests on December 2 was entirely his own.
“I was not pressured in any way,” Mr Horton said. “But certainly it was ...
DATE: Apr 01, 2017
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
A boat sent to the bottom five months ago by Hurricane Nicole is afloat once more, although the cost of the exercise is yet to be tallied.
“Getting the engines running is my next mission,” Jepheth Newton said after his vessel, the Esperanza, settled ...
DATE: Apr 01, 2017
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Beacon House, the headquarters of the Bermuda Society for the Blind, has been gifted a major endowment towards its renovation.
A windfall of nearly $50,000 raised by the Lions Clubs of Bermuda was matched by the club’s international foundation, and p...
DATE: Mar 31, 2017
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Jonathan Bell
Political interference has been implied in the fateful decision for Parliament to proceed after demonstrators blocked the gates leading to the House of Assembly on December 2.
Parliament had been cancelled at the behest of Randy Horton, the Speaker o...
DATE: Mar 31, 2017
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Police Service has concluded its investigation into the protests outside Parliament on December 2, according to a police spokesman, with “a number of files” sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for consideration.
To date, 15 people...
DATE: Mar 31, 2017
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