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More than 100 security cameras were installed around the Island by the beginning of December under a contract with the firm BAS-Serco, MPs heard in the House of Assembly.
The contract calls for 149 cameras — 19 of which have licence plate-reading cap...
DATE: Feb 13, 2015
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Bermuda’s modernisation of its air traffic management will allow the Island to become a certified air navigation service provider, Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell told Members of Parliament yesterday upon resumption at the House of Assembly. “Sign...
DATE: Feb 13, 2015
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Staff are entitled to get paid ahead of creditors when a company is wound up, according to law. But the collapse of the White’s supermarket chain left nothing to pay them.
Yesterday Shadow Labour Minister Derrick Burgess — who was president of the Be...
DATE: Feb 12, 2015
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A task force to remedy Bermuda’s “deplorable” road safety record will be put together this month, Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell said after yesterday’s road safety summit.
“Within the next two weeks, I will be calling and visiting people to be pa...
DATE: Feb 12, 2015
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Sobriety tests at the scenes of accidents will be introduced in the upcoming session of Parliament, while speed camera legislation is likely to be tabled in the subsequent session, Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell told yesterday’s road safety summi...
DATE: Feb 12, 2015
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A midday blaze gutted part of a Sandys nursery yesterday, but a woman and four small children managed to get out unscathed.
According to a Police spokesman, smoke and fire were seen “billowing from the residence” when they arrived at about 12.30pm.
A...
DATE: Feb 12, 2015
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Long serving staff from White’s supermarkets, which closed in 2012, remain unpaid — including seniors who worked decades for the company and say they can’t get any answers.
One caller told The Royal Gazette that his mother, who is in her early 70s an...
DATE: Feb 11, 2015
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A photographic walkabout of St George organised by the group Art on the Town Bermuda yielded striking images offering a fresh look at the Olde Towne.
For nine-year-old photographer Cat Russo, it was a chance to continue her pursuit of the perfect sho...
DATE: Feb 11, 2015
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Unions resorted to industrial action over furlough days prematurely and unnecessarily, according to former Labour and Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness, who said the Island’s image had suffered as a result.
Mr Edness said that while he was ministe...
DATE: Feb 10, 2015
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A history of the Progressive Labour Party from its birth in 1963 to its ascension to Government in 1998 is nearing completion, but is still open for pictures and accounts to be added to its pages.
The epic privately commissioned work, written primari...
DATE: Feb 10, 2015
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