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A total of $23,000 has been raised to pay for care for vulnerable senior Mrs O after her plight was revealed in The Royal Gazette.
Readers dug deep into their pockets after we reported how the 98-year-old widow, who has dementia and diabetes, was ref...
DATE: Feb 06, 2012
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A 21-year-old man was this morning charged with the murder of shooting victim Jahmiko LeShore.
Roger Lightbourne Jr appeared at Magistrates’ Court but did not enter a plea as the case must go before the Supreme Court.
Mr Lightbourne, whose address wa...
DATE: Feb 04, 2012
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Court
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Sam Strangeways
The commanding officer of the Bermuda Regiment is to lead the part-time army for another year.
Governor Sir Richard Gozney said Lieutenant Colonel Brian Gonsalves’s contract would be extended for 12 months when it expires on May 30, on the advice on ...
DATE: Feb 03, 2012
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Government is refusing to release a 16-page report on the Bermuda Land Development Company, which cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars.
The document was produced in 2010 by BLDC’s chairman and deputy chairman at the time, Edward Saunders and P...
DATE: Feb 03, 2012
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Politics
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Sam Strangeways
Shadow Attorney General Trevor Moniz yesterday accused Cabinet Ministers of “tangling themselves up” over the Auditor General’s damning report on inappropriate public spending.
Mr Moniz said statements released in recent days by Premier Paula Cox, De...
DATE: Feb 03, 2012
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Politics
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Sam Strangeways
Deputy Premier Derrick Burgess and Attorney General Kim Wilson appeared unable to agree yesterday on whether there was ever an agreement for Government to benefit from $4 million in damages being sought in a private legal case.
Mr Burgess and former ...
DATE: Feb 02, 2012
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Politics
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Sam Strangeways
Public Accounts Committee chairman Bob Richards has pledged to call witnesses and hold open meetings to get to the bottom of the Auditor General’s findings on the misuse of taxpayer dollars.
The Shadow Finance Minister said yesterday the meetings wou...
DATE: Feb 02, 2012
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Politics
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Sam Strangeways
A youth education organisation is urging supporters to sign up for a charity walk to help raise funds to support young people.
New Beginnings Education Trust wants people to participate in the Argus Walks the Walk event on Sunday, February 26, starti...
DATE: Feb 01, 2012
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Bermuda’s only resident air ambulance has stopped operating due to the low number of flights it was being asked to carry out.
Eloise Bell, vice president of Bermuda Air Medivac (BAM), told The Royal Gazette she and co-owner Sheldon Smith decided to c...
DATE: Feb 01, 2012
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Governor Sir Richard Gozney yesterday urged those with knowledge of bribes and “backhanders” in the public sector to report them to police.
He issued a statement in the wake of the Auditor General’s Special Report on the Misuse of Public Funds, in wh...
DATE: Jan 31, 2012
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