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A patients’ group says any inquiry into Bermuda Hospitals Board’s clinical and corporate governance following the suspension of its head doctor needs to be entirely independent.
Bermuda Healthcare Advocacy Group issued a statement in response to the ...
DATE: Aug 06, 2012
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Health
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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda Hospitals Board is to undergo a “clinical and corporate governance review” — with Ombudsman Arlene Brock providing comment on the final report.
The board announced yesterday it was seeking bids from companies interested in conducting the inqu...
DATE: Jul 31, 2012
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Other
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Sam Strangeways
Pastor Leroy Bean’s anti-gang charity has been given a rent-free lease for White’s Island for more than 20 years by Government — and is now charging another charity to use the land.
The lease to CARTEL (Challenging and Reclaiming the True Essence of ...
DATE: Jul 27, 2012
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Sam Strangeways
A patients' group is calling for Bermuda Hospitals Board to be more transparent and reveal why its chief of staff has been suspended from duty.
Mark Selley, one of the founders of Bermuda Healthcare Advocacy Group, told The Royal Gazette it was unacc...
DATE: Jul 25, 2012
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A civil liberties group is seeking legal advice from a British QC on whether amendments to add sexual orientation and age to the Human Rights Act would give less protection than Government's proposed equality bill.
The Centre for Justice, which is ho...
DATE: Jul 24, 2012
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Sam Strangeways
Cabinet secretary Donald Scott says public access to information legislation will come into force later this year.
Today marks the second anniversary of the law being passed by parliamentarians in the House of Assembly.
At the time, then Premier Ewar...
DATE: Jul 23, 2012
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Sam Strangeways
An overseas consultant has asked Bermuda Hospitals Board to look again at a complaint he made against Dr Donald Thomas in light of the chief of staff’s suspension.
David Green, of IHI Consulting International in Ontario, told The Royal Gazette he got...
DATE: Jul 21, 2012
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
An actuary who was found guilty of driving while using a hand-held device has lost her appeal against conviction in the Supreme Court.
But Chief Justice Ian Kawaley ruled yesterday that the sentence given to Catherine Farnsworth for listening to an i...
DATE: Jul 21, 2012
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
An actuary who was found guilty of driving while using a hand-held device has lost her appeal against conviction in the Supreme Court.
But Chief Justice Ian Kawaley ruled today that the sentence given to Catherine Farnsworth for listening to an iPod ...
DATE: Jul 20, 2012
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Criminologist and campaigner Sheelagh Cooper has accused Government of financially starving the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), despite its crucial function in a democracy.
Ms Cooper, from the Coalition for the Protection of Children, said the ind...
DATE: Jul 19, 2012
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Sam Strangeways