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Support for the beating of a schoolboy accused of “disrupting the community” is just a symptom of the Island’s underlying social problems.
So said Family Centre director Martha Dismont after comments praising David Fox’s actions were posted on The Ro...
DATE: Jun 10, 2013
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Rents will rise “substantially” for residents of Wedco’s new prefabricated housing at the West End, which will see 20 units added.
The first five of the buildings, put together by a US company, arrived in Bermuda on June 3, Public Works Minister Trev...
DATE: Jun 08, 2013
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A “no-go zone” will be implemented off the shoreline by Westgate, as part of tighter security measures planned for the facility.
Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley said the moves were in response to a prisoner’s recent break from a cell.
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DATE: Jun 08, 2013
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A long wait has ended for East End residents, as the St George’s Police Station reopened for business following years of refurbishment.
The Old Town had officers back in the station on Wednesday, according to Chief Inspector Tracy Adams, Commander of...
DATE: Jun 07, 2013
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This year marks the last for Bermuda’s old-style horizontal-print bank notes, which cease to be legal tender come January 1, 2014.
Starting June 30, the vertical note series introduced in 2009 is to replace the “legacy” notes of $2, $5, $10, $20, $50...
DATE: Jun 06, 2013
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London QC Jerome Lynch has been considered as a possible Solicitor General for the Island — but “at the moment it is just a remote idea, no more”, Mr Lynch said.
A defence lawyer at the UK office Charter Chambers, Mr Lynch has acted in several high-p...
DATE: Jun 05, 2013
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Government has agreed to pay out on $15 million worth of rejected health insurance claims after receiving a wave of calls from panicked seniors.
Health Minister Pat Gordon-Pamplin told The Royal Gazette that rumours of a cut to the subsidy for aged c...
DATE: Jun 05, 2013
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Hospital officials seeking to head off soaring health costs report “mixed success” in getting long-term elderly patients taken home — often because their families can’t afford to look after them.
“The problem is, and has been for as long as I can rem...
DATE: Jun 04, 2013
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One of Bermuda’s pioneering aviators, and the last remaining local mechanic for the “flying boats”, has died at the age of 88.
Second World War veteran Arthur Colin Plant passed away at the Somerset home from where his vintage seaplane, a Luscombe Si...
DATE: Jun 03, 2013
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Bermudian songbird Bailey Outerbridge got a “once in a lifetime” show when she opened for the Beach Boys over the weekend.
And proud parents Andrew and Phoebe Outerbridge said the rock ‘n’ roll legends jokingly passed on a request to Bermuda.
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DATE: Jun 03, 2013
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