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Compulsory after-sentence treatment for sex offenders could be on the cards for Bermuda, it was revealed yesterday. Canadian prisons supremo Ole Ingstrup said Canada now had laws to ensure supervision outside prison walls. And he said: "We would be m...

Bermuda's Prison officers are set to benefit from a new link-up with their opposite numbers in Canada. And officers on the Island are set to get special training in hostage negotiation and riot control from an expert from the Canadian Correctional Se...

Hong Kong QC Denis Mitchell is set to become Bermuda's newest judge, The Royal Gazette can reveal. For Mr. Mitchell, a Scots-born barrister in the former British colony, has beaten several other candidates for the post of Puisne Judge in Supreme Cour...

A mix of the old and the new from its depleted ranks will form the United Bermuda Party's first Shadow Cabinet. But Opposition Leader Pamela Gordon admitted a UBP knocked for six in the General Election would have problems because of 26-14 split in f...

A soft-touch debut Throne Speech from the new Government yesterday kicked off the first session of Parliament under a PLP administration. And -- as predicted in The Royal Gazette -- the Progressive Labour Party's first outline for Government stuck la...

Government proposals. And that is likely to mean new Navy-style tasks for the soldiers at Warwick Camp -- with more full-time possibilities for young Bermudians. Yesterday's Throne Speech said Government would, in consultation with the commander-in-c...

Ex-Premier Pamela Gordon did not get a head-of-Government house from Government -- but a housing allowance. And Ms Gordon said she would not be leaving her Warwick home in the wake of the UBP losing power. She said Cabinet had backed a $5,000-a-month...

beaten United Bermuda Party, it was revealed yesterday. And he will be joined on the Opposition side of the Upper House by losing St. George's North candidate Kim Swan and Patricia Gordon Pamplin, sister of ex-Premier Pamela Gordon, who crashed in Pe...

top priorities for the coming year. And boosting tourism, education, a streamlined voting system plus the creation of a International Business Minister are likely to be among the major targets for the new Parliamentary session. The Throne Speech will...

Thorold Masefield. And already-sworn Sen. Milton Scott -- who will become Government Senate leader -- will be joined by three PLP candidates who failed to ride the PLP General Election tide along with party chairman Calvin Smith. The other PLP Senato...