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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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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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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
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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
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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
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A moderate drop in the number of Government employees was reported to the House of Assembly by Premier Michael Dunkley, with a concurrent drop in wages and overtime expenditure.
Responding to Parliamentary questions from the Progressive Labour Party’...
DATE: Nov 15, 2014
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
The One Bermuda Alliance went public with its protest against an alleged verbal attack that Marc Bean made against Toni Daniels, with a premeditated walkout as soon as the Opposition Leader began the Reply to the Throne Speech at the reconvening of P...
DATE: Nov 15, 2014
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“Radical education reform” would be a swift priority of a Progressive Labour Party Government, Opposition Leader Marc Bean declared in the Reply to the Throne Speech.
Economic diversification, plus an opening of Bermuda’s health insurance market to c...
DATE: Nov 15, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
Stanley Paris, the determined sailor hoping to become the oldest person to circumnavigate the globe in 150 years, is passing by Bermuda today on his vessel the Kiwi Spirit.
Dr Paris, 77, called off his last attempt in January after he suffered severa...
DATE: Nov 15, 2014
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