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Dale Butler, the former Minister for Community, Culture and Sport, has distanced himself from suggestions that he is part of an online poker lottery promising thousands in prize money.
“I don’t play poker, I don’t join investment schemes and I have n...
DATE: Nov 25, 2014
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Bermuda Regiment soldiers have finished five gruelling days of training in how to conduct a shooting range.
Ten soldiers, ranging from Captain to Corporal, got weapons training from expert small arms instructors, courtesy of the British Army’s Small ...
DATE: Nov 25, 2014
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The East End’s Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre will remain running for another year at least, after its closure was declared and then reversed in 2013.
A year ago, the Bermuda Hospitals Board announced that the centre was underused and losing money.
Ho...
DATE: Nov 24, 2014
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Absentee balloting, fixed-term elections and the right of voters to recall MPs are still in the works, despite a long silence from Government on political reform.
The measures were part of the One Bermuda Alliance election platform, and a governance ...
DATE: Nov 24, 2014
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A positive appraisal of the Emergency Measures Organisation (EMO) during last month’s Tropical Storm Fay was not shared by Opposition MPs, who suggested the fierce storm had caught Bermuda unprepared.
Michael Dunkley, the Premier who also serves as t...
DATE: Nov 24, 2014
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Sightings of orange lights drifting across the sky yesterday resulted in calls to Bermuda Maritime Operations from the area of Southampton.
The service alerted vessels to keep a lookout and Police were asked to send a patrol to make sure no one was i...
DATE: Nov 24, 2014
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Shining examples of young people helping each other to be the best were commended by Community Minister Wayne Scott at the Young Citizens Awards Ceremony yesterday.
The eleventh annual event, offered by the Department of Child and Family Services, ce...
DATE: Nov 21, 2014
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Criticism of Government as “uncaring” drew a hard-hitting response from Senator Michael Fahy as the Upper House debated the Throne Speech.
Taking “great umbrage” at the accusation that the One Bermuda Alliance neglected Bermudian jobs, Sen Fahy said ...
DATE: Nov 21, 2014
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Government’s choice of the Canadian Commercial Corporation for a new airport terminal was defended in yesterday’s House of Assembly against Opposition charges that the CCC was not a reputable organisation.
Bob Richards, the Finance Minister, repeated...
DATE: Nov 21, 2014
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New Progressive Labour Party MP Jamahl Simmons was sworn in this morning as the Opposition representative for Sandys South.
The Constituency 33 MP, approved in Tuesday’s by-election, took the oath of allegiance after being led on to the floor of the ...
DATE: Nov 21, 2014
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