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Sir John Swan will this week meet with the UBP's Paget East party faithful to discuss his resignation bombshell, it was revealed yesterday. The move came after Sir John stunned MPs on Friday by announcing his intention to quit his seat over the Easte...

Labour and Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness yesterday ruled out a new approach to the sentencing of sex offenders. Mr. Edness said: "It would be something Government would have to consider as policy. "We have rejected mandatory sentencing before ...

Marilyn (Peggy) Jackson was yesterday voted Social Worker of the Year by her professional colleagues. Ms Jackson -- a psychiatric social worker at St. Brendan's Hospital -- is the second recipient of the annual award. She said: "I found out a month o...

A former employee of the axed Paget Dry Cleaners last night accused businessman Stephen Thomson of closing the business rather than accept a union ballot. Michael Glasgow Sr., who worked at the Paget shop until its closure was announced on Thursday, ...

stunned House of Assembly. For the man who led the United Bermuda Party Government for more than a decade announced his intention to quit his Paget East seat before the next session of Parliament in May. Sir John's shock announcement came during the ...

dry-cleaning businesses at the heart of a battle over union recognition. The shock move came on the eve of further talks with the Bermuda Industrial Union over holding a ballot at Hamilton Val Cleaners and Paget Dry Cleaners. But an emotional Mr. Tho...

A brave shopkeeper yesterday beat off two burly raiders -- with a giant-sized bottle of bubbly. But yesterday slightly-built Serpentine Liquors owner Gene Lines, 58, said: "I'm not brave -- I was just fighting for my rights.'' Mr. Lines blew his top...

this year, compared to $6.4 million for 1996, it was revealed yesterday. Officers have made at least 20 drugs arrests -- nabbing more than 28 kilograms of marijuana, 106 grams of cocaine, and 75 grams of heroin. The updated figures were given after M...

The official auditor of Government finances yesterday called for his independence to be guaranteed. And Auditor Larry Dennis said the way to underline his autonomy could be to make the service a `quango' -- a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organis...

British Airways' fourth weekly flight scheduled for the summer will not get off the ground. And yesterday Tourism Minister David Dodwell admitted the move was a major shock. The slap in the face to the Island's tourism and business sectors came despi...