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The cost of health care for Bermuda’s insurers is set to rise by three percent for the new fiscal year, according to a report released today.
The 2010 Actuarial Report for the Bermuda Health Council bases its calculations on the price of a minimum h...
DATE: May 17, 2011
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Giving police a fake name after being caught with cannabis proved expensive for a 23-year-old Smith’s man.
Howard Ascento, of Town Hill Road, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to possession of cannabis and perverting the course of justice.
Crown c...
DATE: May 17, 2011
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Jonathan Bell
A trucking boss last night hit back at accusations that his business has taken on a non-Bermudian at the expense of locals.
The Royal Gazette has been contacted by a truck driver who claimed that Julian Lodge, of Lodge Trucking, gave a mainly truck d...
DATE: May 17, 2011
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A 52-year-old Devonshire man who led police on a car chase around Hamilton has been jailed for three months.
Glenn Patrick Richardson, of Long Ridge Pass, told Magistrates’ Court that police accounts of his dangerous driving were “highly exaggerated ...
DATE: May 16, 2011
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Court
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Jonathan Bell
Former National Security Minister David Burch has been appointed chairman of the Parole Board.
He was appointed by Justice Minister Michael Scott, to serve for a term of three years from April 29.
The move is tantamount to a switch of roles between t...
DATE: May 16, 2011
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
A St David’s man whose pit bull mauled a nine-year-old boy has been fined $7,000, and ordered to pay an additional $3,000 to the victim.
The unlicensed dog has also been seized by the Department of Environmental Protection, and put to sleep. Gary Bla...
DATE: May 15, 2011
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Court
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Jonathan Bell
Maths virtuoso Israel Sanchez is contemplating a bright future in civil engineering as graduation draws near.
The S4 CedarBridge Academy student has been accepted into the engineering programme at Canada’s McGill University.
As a result the 16-year-o...
DATE: May 14, 2011
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s ageing population will cause the demand for nursing services to increase in the not-too-distant future, Health Minister Zane DeSilva said.
He said there are currently 600 nurses on the Island keeping pace with the population’s needs but tha...
DATE: May 13, 2011
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Speeding while impaired by alcohol got a Hamilton Parish man banned from the roads for two years.
Pernell Outerbridge, 25, drove at high speed past a police speed check on North Shore Road in Hamilton Parish on May 1 at 12.55am.
A laser detector regi...
DATE: May 13, 2011
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Court
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda has more than 100 children in foster care, and the Department of Child and Family Services needs more members of the public to help.
May has been declared Foster Care Month by Youth, Families, Sports and Community Minister Glenn Blakeney, to ...
DATE: May 13, 2011
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