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The Department of Planning has halved the length of time it takes to process planning applications, according to Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy.
He told the Senate this morning that the average time taken to process an application fell from 12.7 ...
DATE: Dec 18, 2013
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Sam Strangeways
An American couple are warning tourists to hold onto their belongings when they come to Bermuda, after they suffered an attempted robbery on South Shore Road.
Cruise passengers Sandra and Thomas Pugliese were riding on a rental cycle in broad dayligh...
DATE: Dec 12, 2013
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Tourism
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Sam Strangeways
The mother of a heroin addict who died aged 25 said yesterday she was hopeful that the Senior Coroner would agree to her request for an inquest.
Lynn Spencer lost son Christopher on October 27 last year, after he collapsed at their Paget home, and sh...
DATE: Dec 11, 2013
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Court
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Sam Strangeways
Road crashes have killed 144 people on Bermuda’s roads since 2000 but policymakers lack the will to tackle the problem, according to CADA executive director Anthony Santucci.
The anti-drink driving campaigner pointed out that the Island had averaged ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2013
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Sam Strangeways
Opposition MP Wayne Furbert claimed today that Bermuda Tourism Authority chairman David Dodwell had become the “de facto Tourism Minister, setting the agenda with apparently no oversight and no accountability”.
And the Shadow Tourism Minister critici...
DATE: Dec 10, 2013
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Bar owner Hubert (Hubie) Brown died after being given an unnecessary transfusion of the wrong blood type at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, according to his brother-in-law.
And yesterday Danis Moore criticised Bermuda Hospitals Board for hiring la...
DATE: Dec 05, 2013
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Hospital bosses are trying to stop an inquest being held into the death of bar owner Hubert (Hubie) Brown.
Mr Brown, who ran Hubie’s bar and jazz club on Angle Street, died aged 66 in December 2002 at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
Senior Coroner...
DATE: Dec 04, 2013
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Senior Coroner Archibald Warner has defended his decision to hold just four inquests into sudden deaths in the last six years, insisting that no more were necessary.
And he told The Royal Gazette he had received no complaints from families about the ...
DATE: Dec 04, 2013
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Sam Strangeways
Deputy Premier Michael Dunkley insisted yesterday he was not dragging his feet on whether an inquiry should be held into historic complaints of sexual misconduct in the Bermuda Regiment.
The Public Safety Minister, who repeatedly called for an indepe...
DATE: Nov 28, 2013
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Sam Strangeways
The Department of Immigration has granted Bermudian status to a six-year-old boy whose mother had been told he didn’t qualify.
The child was born on the Island to Bermudian parents, allegedly as the result of a rape, as revealed by The Royal Gazette ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2013
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