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Post-hurricane repairs on Public Works Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin’s house cost $765, but the bill was “settled in full”, the Senate was told.
Ms Gordon-Pamplin drew Opposition criticism after Public Works teams were seen fixing her storm-damage...
DATE: Nov 20, 2014
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Firearms could easily have been smuggled into the Island’s jails, according to a review of prison facilities by the Treatment of Offenders Board.
However, according to Lt Col Edward Lamb, the Commissioner of Corrections, such concerns are well known ...
DATE: Nov 20, 2014
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Bermuda’s new airport terminal would include maximum shopping and restaurant options — as well as jetways at eight gates to protect passengers from the elements.
Aaron Adderley, head of the Department of Airport Operations, told The Royal Gazette tha...
DATE: Nov 20, 2014
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A repeat thief whose apology to Magistrates’ Court rang “hollow” has been jailed for 30 days for stealing less than ten dollars’ worth of food.
Dimetri Robinson, 36, was back in the dock less than a month after being sentenced to ten days’ imprisonme...
DATE: Nov 20, 2014
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One of the world’s best known crime writers, the US author and avid diver Patricia Cornwell, has extolled the Island’s water in today’s Telegraph.
“Bermuda is the most interesting place I’ve dived,” Ms Cornwell told the UK newspaper. “I started divin...
DATE: Nov 20, 2014
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A community-wide effort is needed to tackle the Island’s social problems and build a brighter future for our children — and every resident is being asked to step up and make a difference.
A reinvigorated push to aid Bermuda’s youngsters is being rol...
DATE: Nov 19, 2014
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Government is discussing a possible insurance discount for struggling residents, Michael Fahy, the Home Affairs Minister, told the Senate this morning.
The hint emerged during Senator Fahy’s review of grocery discounts, which was touched on in the Th...
DATE: Nov 19, 2014
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Jamahl Simmons has been elected as the Member of Parliament for Sandys South tonight.
The Progressive Labour Party’s candidate for Constituency 33 beat Georgia Marshall, who was standing for the One Bermuda Alliance, by 462 votes to 326.
There was a ...
DATE: Nov 18, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
A former gang member’s video blogs have gone viral, notching up almost 6,000 hits over the weekend.
Warning gang afflicted young men that their options have shrunk to death or jail, Calvin Minors told The Royal Gazette he had created the three videos...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
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Sandys South voters will pick their new Member of Parliament at the polls tomorrow.
Several residents of Constituency 33 told The Royal Gazette they would have preferred to have kept Independent MP Terry Lister, who decisively won the seat in 2012 fo...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
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Jonathan Bell