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A 52-year-old man who stole $164 of frozen meat from a grocery store has been remanded to drug treatment court.
Dean Burgess pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court this morning to stealing a leg of lamb and three racks of lamb from the Heron Bay Market...
DATE: Feb 20, 2015
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Shoppers reacted with dismay yesterday to the news that the 10 per cent grocery discount will end after next week.
Lindo’s, Supermart and MarketPlace stores agreed to offer the increased discount on Wednesdays beginning in December 2013 as part of an...
DATE: Feb 19, 2015
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The Ministry of Public Works is seeking permission to erect a pedestrian tunnel to protect railway trail users from an unstable cliff face.
According to a planning application received recently by the Department of Planning, the tunnel would be erect...
DATE: Feb 17, 2015
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Government spent more than $200,000 on furnishings for the Public Works headquarters and the Government Administration Building.
According to a notice gazetted last month, the Ministry of Public Works spent $213,602.26 on office furnishings. The cont...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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The Bermuda Public Service Union has voted to make the president’s position a full-time, paid post.
During an emergency general meeting held last Friday, members voted in favour of the changes previously approved by the union’s General Council. Of th...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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A man awaiting trial for burglary was remanded on Monday after the court heard he breached his bail conditions.
Kevin Butterfield, 37, from St George’s, had been released on bail by the Supreme Court last year in advance of a Magistrates’s Court tria...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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A man involved in a two-vehicle collision yesterday morning was arrested on suspicion of driving while impaired.
According to a Police spokesman, officers responded to reports of a crash in Hamilton Parish a few minutes after 6am that day.
“It appear...
DATE: Feb 15, 2015
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The Bermuda Rainbow Alliance has praised a recent Supreme Court judgment, which granted the ability for unmarried couples to apply for joint adoption.
In the ruling, Puisne Judge Stephen Hellman found that the Adoption Act was discriminatory on the g...
DATE: Feb 14, 2015
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Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell has dismissed rumours that the proposed hotel on the former Club Med site has lost the St Regis brand.
Asked about reports that Starwood Hotels and Resorts, which owns the brand, had signed an exclusive agreement to w...
DATE: Feb 13, 2015
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Plans to build on farmland as part of the Pink Beach redevelopment have been rejected by the Development Applications Board.
Sardis Development Ltd had sought permission to erect ten residential units, a sewage treatment facility and parking spaces o...
DATE: Feb 12, 2015
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