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A 27-year-old was today jailed for a year-and-a-half following a “violent, drunken assault” on a woman.
It was the second time in a week Jamal Bascome appeared in Magistrates’ Court for assaulting Merviena Simons.
He was sentenced to 18 months in jai...
DATE: May 21, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda and other British territories have come under pressure from UK Prime Minister David Cameron to “take the lead” on tax information exchange and beneficial ownership.
Mr Cameron wrote yesterday to the Island, along with the rest of Britain’s Ov...
DATE: May 21, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
The City of Hamilton could be run as a “quasi-government organisation”, with business owners voting as well as residents.
But alterations to the voting scheme, if approved by Parliament, aren’t expected before the next municipal elections in 2015.
Ho...
DATE: May 20, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
The charter ferry Millennium is already on the Island, and should be deployed this week, according to Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell.
“The Millennium has come in, and needs a period of time to get things ready, and will be in service next week,” Mr...
DATE: May 20, 2013
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An unpopular plan to raise a tax on awnings and signs that jut over City of Hamilton sidewalks has been scrapped, Hamilton Mayor Graeme Outerbridge said.
The City last year proposed to tax the structures at $75 each — causing some store owners to wal...
DATE: May 20, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
Young mechanics have teamed up to bring something different to this year’s May 24 parade: a float that generates its own power.
The group have been working in the yard of older relative Abdullah Furqan.
“I like doing creative things,” said 10-year-ol...
DATE: May 20, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
Congratulations poured in after footballer Nahki Wells scored a first for Bermuda with a Wembley goal that helped propel Bradford City into England’s League One.
“Well done, Nahki — you make us all proud to be Bermudian,” Premier Craig Cannonier decl...
DATE: May 20, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
Retired One Bermuda Alliance MP Louise Jackson picked up a $30,000 six-month consulting contract to the Ministry of Health at the start of this year.
Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin said she’d needed Ms Jackson’s assistance so that “we could ...
DATE: May 18, 2013
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Documented evidence indicating “a large number of defects and deficiencies” in the building of Heritage Wharf currently lies before the Attorney General, Public Works Minister Trevor Moniz told the House of Assembly last night.
And Tourism Minister S...
DATE: May 18, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
Hamilton’s retailers have welcomed the surge of business delivered by the two cruise ship callers.
For Brown and Co General Manager Nicole Warren, the uptick in visitor-driven customers followed a predictable cycle.
On the day the ship arrived, she s...
DATE: May 17, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
