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A 50-year-old mother desperate for work is now gambling on Government’s waiter-server programme to secure her any kind of a job that can help with her debts.
Entrepreneur Colleen Bean-Jones drew fanfare in 2007, including a visit from then-Premier Ew...
DATE: Feb 06, 2012
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A proposed wage agreement between Government and civil servants has triggered calls for detail, with the Opposition branding it an eleventh-hour “pre-election exercise”.
The offer by Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox was reportedly made as Gover...
DATE: Feb 06, 2012
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Jonathan Bell
Ricky Dias is still relatively new to the fiercely competitive DJ world.
One year on from his first turn as a DJ in a Front Street club, the 18-year-old is gearing up for his first tour overseas with Bermuda’s own Young Gunz Sound (YGS Entertainment)...
DATE: Feb 04, 2012
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The same training course that recently put the Bermuda Regiment’s recruits through their paces is about to be turned over to volunteers for charity.
The Island Challenge will send teams of four through the beach runs, walls and wiggle spaces, from Wa...
DATE: Feb 03, 2012
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The Island’s parole system faces sweeping changes, Attorney General Kim Wilson has announced.
New legislation will introduce tiered sentencing, as well as tiered criteria for parole eligibility.
The move was welcomed by newly-appointed chairman of th...
DATE: Feb 03, 2012
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
The Opposition has called for Health Minister Zane DeSilva to issue “a complete and unreserved apology” to One Bermuda Alliance seniors advocate Louise Jackson for accusing her of misinforming the public.
A Government letter to FutureCare clients dre...
DATE: Feb 03, 2012
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
Construction of the X-Ray Scanner on Hamilton’s docks is now 30 percent complete, according to Bermuda Customs, with the project now slated for completion this summer.
A Customs spokesman acknowledged that the X-Ray project, initially given an April,...
DATE: Feb 03, 2012
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A town hall meeting debating the imminent National Budget heard a panel of Ministers hint at new initiatives for 2012.
These ranged from a likely increase in public transport fares predicted by Transport Minister Derrick Burgess, to Environment Minis...
DATE: Feb 02, 2012
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The racial impact of criminal justice in Bermuda will be put under the spotlight by the group Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda (CURB) in an upcoming conference.
The group announced it is bringing international as well as local speakers to the eve...
DATE: Feb 01, 2012
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Jonathan Bell
Two men have been arrested, and suspected stolen property seized, after a police patrol responded to reports of attempted burglaries in Devonshire and Smith’s.
Following a short chase in the early hours of yesterday morning, a motorcycle believed to ...
DATE: Feb 01, 2012
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
