9018 results returned for search: "" category "News" author Jonathan Bell
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
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
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
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
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
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
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
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
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
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
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
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
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
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda continues to spend more than it earns, the Ministry of Finance reported today.
Government took in $443.5 million and spent $459.4 million during the first half of the fiscal year.
Spending was said to be $28.5 million, or 5.8 per cent lower t...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A robbery by two men at the Sandys Laundromat resulted in the pair escaping with an unknown quantity of cash, police have reported.
The robbery, shortly before 3pm, occurred at the plaza beside the MarketPlace, with the two entering the business and ...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Graffiti has been sprayed across the doorway of the Somers Isles Lodge in Sandys, just before the facility is to be used by area voters in tomorrow’s by-election.
The quasi-religious motto has been removed, according to Progressive Labour Party candi...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell