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Former Premier Ewart Brown voiced “shock and disappointment” alongside former Immigration Minister David Burch at a plea issued on behalf of four Uighur refugees.
“What we are experiencing now is a classic working of the axiom ‘No good deed goes unpu...
DATE: Jan 22, 2013
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Bermuda's controversial term limits policy for work permit holders will be suspended for two years or scrapped entirely, Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy has announced.
A final decision is expected before the end of this month.
In a nod to the poli...
DATE: Jan 22, 2013
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
Term limits for work permit holders will be suspended for two years or scrapped entirely, Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy announced today.
A final decision is likely to be made by the end of the month, he told a press conference.
Senator Fahy ackn...
DATE: Jan 21, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
Musician and volunteer firefighter Torrie Baker, 25, has become the third person to die on the Island’s roads this year, following a rental cycle crash in St George’s in the early hours of Saturday.
Yesterday, relatives and friends gathered to pay re...
DATE: Jan 21, 2013
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Students at Elliot Primary School were treated to a careers fair in memory of beloved PE teacher Reynold Smith.
School principal Kimberly Creighton said family of Mr Reynold, including his stepdaughter Anika DeShields, took the event as a chance to c...
DATE: Jan 21, 2013
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Education
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Jonathan Bell
In the aftermath of the year’s second road death, friends and family gathered in mourning and remembrance yesterday at the Alexandra Road, Devonshire home of Haile Matthews.
Known also as Marcus, the 31-year-old father of two died shortly after his m...
DATE: Jan 19, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
A live wire sparking in North Shore Road has residents directing traffic while they wait for the cable to be switched off.
The fallen wire, just east of Sunset Pass, has been crackling and flashing since 5.15pm, causing panicked neighbours to keep on...
DATE: Jan 18, 2013
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Reopening the medical clinic five years after it was controversially shut, will offer a fresh start from its stigmatised history, said a physician who worked at the facility.
Stanley James said he welcomed news of Government’s pledge to bring the cli...
DATE: Jan 18, 2013
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Health
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Jonathan Bell
A convicted insurance fraudster has been jailed for a year, in a case that saw three Filipino nationals charged with deceptively obtaining more than $75,000 from BF&M.
As family looked on, a tearful Camille Canillas Orteza, dubbed the mastermind of t...
DATE: Jan 17, 2013
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Court
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Jonathan Bell
Education charity the Reading Clinic has been gifted $1 million out of the pocket of its founder, Elizabeth Kitson.
Ms Kitson yesterday launched a foundation aimed at generating $100,000 annually for the Island’s young people.
The 94-year-old started...
DATE: Jan 17, 2013
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