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Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy said a discount grocery scheme has not been axed but reiterated that concerns have been expressed about its sustainability.
The initiative, announced in November’s Throne Speech, offers customers at the Island’s thr...
DATE: Jun 25, 2014
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Speech and language screenings for students getting ready to start in Primary School will start later this month through the Department of Health, for free.
The screenings will be carried out by the Department’s Speech-Language Pathologists between J...
DATE: Jun 23, 2014
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An alleged squatter who illegally lived with his family in a Hamilton apartment for more than 20 years has been awarded ownership of the unit by the Supreme Court.
The property’s legal owner, Charles Rawlins, had gone to the courts to force Ralph Rus...
DATE: Jun 21, 2014
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The Supreme Court has given the green light to a proposed Coroner’s Inquest into the death of Hubert “Hubie” Brown, despite arguments by the Bermuda Hospitals Board.
Mr Brown ran Hubie’s Bar on Angle Street, and died at King Edward VII Memorial Hospi...
DATE: Jun 20, 2014
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A Pembroke man this morning denied forging a betting slip in an attempt to get $25,000 from a local betting shop.
Dashae Simons, 25, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court to charges of creating a false instrument, specifically a betting slip, usin...
DATE: Jun 20, 2014
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A Bermudian species of fern is on the edge of extinction, according to an international “red list” of endangered species.
The Governor Laffan’s Fern and the Bermuda Shield Fern have both been included in the International Union for the Conservation o...
DATE: Jun 20, 2014
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Three teenagers this morning admitted brawling on the Bermuda College campus, while a fourth was granted a trial date.
Khalif Williams, 17, Taijuan Davis, 18, and Makai Jacobs, 18, all pleaded guilty to taking part in a fight on December 10 last year...
DATE: Jun 19, 2014
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A Pembroke woman this morning admitted striking the mother of her boyfriend’s child in a fight over a borrowed cell phone.
Vondolla Santucci, 20, pleaded guilty to a single count of assault, but a second charge of trespassing relating to the same inc...
DATE: Jun 19, 2014
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More than three quarters of a century after catching a glimpse of Bermuda in a postcard, a Wyoming man was able to see the bustling streets of Hamilton in person.
Seventy-seven years after receiving the postcard as a boy, Bob Grinell visited the Isla...
DATE: Jun 18, 2014
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A Warwick man who tried to escape arrest by running from police was this morning ordered to pay $1,500 in fines.
Tarik Smith, 25, pleaded guilty to charges of using offensive words to police and escaping lawful custody in an incident earlier this wee...
DATE: Jun 18, 2014
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