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Bermuda’s citizens will have the right to know by the end of this year and if anyone is able to help them understand why that matters, it is surely Heather Brooke.
The UK-based activist and journalist has spent the last seven years requesting informa...
DATE: Mar 14, 2012
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Sam Strangeways
Disgraced financiers David and Antoinette Bolden have lost an appeal against their conviction for misleading the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA).
The husband and wife, of Harrington Sound Road, Hamilton Parish, were found guilty of the offence by a ...
DATE: Mar 13, 2012
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Court
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Sam Strangeways
A Bermudian man was yesterday convicted of money laundering in St Vincent in a case involving a record $1.7 million in dirty cash.
Winston Robinson, from Sandys, was arrested four years ago on the Caribbean island after police found him and the money...
DATE: Mar 10, 2012
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Court
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Sam Strangeways
Three former crew members of the casino ship Niobe Corinthian will receive more than $40,000 in unpaid wages following the sale of the ship at auction.
The men, from Honduras, brought a civil case against the vessel’s owners Estrellas Management Ltd ...
DATE: Mar 09, 2012
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Court
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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda Archives director Karla Hayward is still on the public payroll after more than five months on administrative leave.
But Government Estates Minister Michael Scott and his permanent secretary Robert Horton are refusing to say whether she remain...
DATE: Mar 08, 2012
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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda will play a critical role in helping NASA go further in space with a new tracking station at Cooper’s Island.
The US space agency has set up a temporary mobile unit at the nature reserve in St David’s which will monitor rockets as they travel...
DATE: Mar 08, 2012
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Sam Strangeways
Freedom of information campaigner Heather Brooke will be one of the guest speakers at a forum on the public’s right to know later this month.
The Centre for Justice is hosting the session at the Centennial Hall at St Paul AME Church on Court Street i...
DATE: Mar 06, 2012
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Sam Strangeways
This year’s police budget of more than $68 million won’t be enough to get the service up to full strength, Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards complained yesterday.
In his reply to the Budget, the One Bermuda Alliance MP said the Island’s gang probl...
DATE: Mar 05, 2012
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Budget
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Sam Strangeways
The Opposition would abolish the role of “amateur” Tourism Minister, encourage foreign capital for waterfront development, hold a referendum on casinos and implement a short-term marketing strategy to revive the second pillar of the economy.
Shadow F...
DATE: Mar 03, 2012
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Budget
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Sam Strangeways
The Opposition yesterday renewed its call for an independent standards board for schools, as it accused Government of squandering the chance to radically improve public education.
Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards, in his reply to the Budget, said...
DATE: Mar 02, 2012
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Budget
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Sam Strangeways
