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Campaigners for longer jail sentences for sex offenders are to meet the Attorney-General, it was revealed yesterday.
David Burt, the Premier, told the House of Assembly that Juanae Crockwell, who organised a protest outside Parliament on March 1 to d...
DATE: Mar 09, 2019
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Abuwi Rasool, one of the founders of the Bermuda Society for the Blind, has died at 89.
Mr Rasool taught handiwork to other blind people, ran his own shop in Hamilton, and prided himself on travelling unaided all over the world.
Born Wilfred John Tac...
DATE: Mar 07, 2019
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Rushing to impose a living wage could fuel a “hustle economy” in which bosses dodge their tax contributions by paying staff in cash, the Bermuda Employers Council has warned.
Family Centre also cautioned against mandated higher wages risking the jobs...
DATE: Mar 07, 2019
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Champion debaters from overseas are to pass on the secrets of effective speaking to young Bermuda residents this summer.
The debate camp was the brainchild of Kenza Wilks, 20, who has used his own debating success to set up a British-based public spe...
DATE: Mar 06, 2019
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Alex Swan, a prominent businessman and entrepreneur, has died. Mr Swan was 76.
The realtor and developer was a decades-long friend and business associate of Sir John Swan, the former premier.
Mr Swan was a general manager for John W. Swan Limited, an...
DATE: Mar 04, 2019
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Legislation implementing budgetary steps laid out by Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, has been tabled to go into effect later this year.
The Land Tax Amendment Bill 2019, tabled yesterday in the House, will come into effect on July 1, 2019 if ...
DATE: Mar 02, 2019
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A Holland-based tall ship for students, the Gulden Leeuw,, has called on Bermuda for the week.
The three-masted topsail schooner, whose name means “Golden Lion”, has more than 60 trainees on board and 20 staff, and is expected to head on tomorrow.
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DATE: Mar 01, 2019
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Roderick Benjamin, 66, was named by the Bermuda Police Service as a man found in an unresponsive state on Wednesday night on the Railway Trail near Loyal Hill, Devonshire.
Mr Benjamin was discovered by a member of the public at about 10.30pm, a spoke...
DATE: Mar 01, 2019
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Today marks two weeks since Donna Simmons was woken up by two sharp crashing sounds as a mass of rock toppled behind her family home on St Monica’s Road.
Her Pembroke home is still hemmed in at its western boundary by a “landslide” that buried the ut...
DATE: Mar 01, 2019
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Kathy Simmons, the Attorney-General, plans to meet with citizens concerned over the sentencing of sex offenders next week, after a group held a gathering outside the House of Assembly today.
She assured the public that children’s well being was of “p...
DATE: Mar 01, 2019
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