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A loophole in a deal barring the US from spying on the UK could leave Bermuda open to snooping by American security agencies.
The US and its allies Britain, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — part of what the US calls the Five Eyes group — ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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A three-man panel led by a top QC is to decide on a $156 million compensation claim by a developer dumped from the redevelopment of Hamilton Harbour.
Geoffrey Bell QC will chair the group, backed up by fellow QC George Bartlett and Norman Rose, Gover...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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Worried Government workers left their Hamilton office block after it started to shake yesterday morning.
The tremors were caused by a faulty air conditioning unit on the fourth floor of Global House on Church Street.
One employee said: “The building ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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A total of nine prisoners offered parole turned it down, the latest set of figures for the Parole Board have revealed.
And out of a total of 156 cases, according to parole board members, only 34 were allowed out of prison before they had served their...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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Debt collection agencies “bend over backwards” to avoid people being jailed, a barrister said yesterday.
Christopher Swan, who is also a director of a debt agency, said he had acted for both creditors and debtors in the courts, and that the system wa...
DATE: Jul 03, 2014
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A PLP senator has called for Government to move straight to legalisation of cannabis.
Marc Daniels said: “My personal position is we have full cannabis reform and I believe cannabis should be legalised.”
And he said legalisation would mean an end to ...
DATE: Jul 03, 2014
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A pensions freeze will not affect social insurance pensions, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday.
A Ministry spokesman explained that a new Bill aimed at axeing regular cost of living increases would apply only to the pension funds for civil serva...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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Sending people to jail for debt is “an exceptional occurrence”, the Island’s top judge said yesterday.
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley said existing laws contained “a general prohibition on imprisonment for debt.”
Although a section of the same 1973 law al...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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A visit by a top Nigerian cardinal to back the upcoming Conference of Mayors in Hamilton has been cancelled.
Cardinal Francis Arinze was on his way to the airport in the US to fly to Bermuda, yesterday, when he was called home to help deal with viole...
DATE: Jul 01, 2014
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An inquiry into a $300,000 campaign donation by a group of wealthy US businessmen to an OBA-linked group is set to be released within the next few days, the party chairman said.
The investigation into the donation by US tycoon Nathan Landow and assoc...
DATE: Jul 01, 2014
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