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An American Airlines flight which was forced to turn around an hour after leaving Bermuda this morning after a problem developed with one of its engines has landed back safely.
The plane, originally bound for New York, touched down at LF Wade Interna...
DATE: Jul 01, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
Burglars broke into a theatre and stole scholarship money earmarked for Bermuda’s best young performers.
The break-in happened at the Daylesford Theatre in Hamilton in the early hours of Monday morning, when about $500 was taken.
Bermuda Musical and ...
DATE: Jul 01, 2011
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Pharmacists and doctors have raised fears that dangerous counterfeit drugs could make their way into Bermuda under new rules coming into effect tomorrow.
An order made by Health Minister Zane DeSilva in a bid to drive down healthcare costs will allow...
DATE: Jun 30, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Several offers have been made on a building up for sale in the City of Hamilton for more than $10 million, according to a realtor.
Penny MacIntyre, from Rego Sotheby’s International Realty, told The Royal Gazette yesterday there were “several interes...
DATE: Jun 29, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
A little girl had to be rescued by boat after she floated off on a lilo into St George’s Harbour.
Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre got a call just before 6.45pm on June 20 to say the youngster had drifted off from her home near Wellington Oval.
Th...
DATE: Jun 28, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
An anti-racism group wants to see better statistics collected and reported in Bermuda to help tackle the Island’s ills.
Lynne Winfield, president of Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda (CURB), says current, concrete information on poverty, crime, ed...
DATE: Jun 27, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda’s “soaring debt” has accumulated thanks to “pork barrel politics”, according to Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards.
He told the House of Assembly on Friday the Island had hundreds of millions of dollars worth of public debt because of huge ...
DATE: Jun 27, 2011
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Politics
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
One Bermuda Alliance chairman Michael Fahy pledged yesterday to keep putting pressure on Bermuda Industrial Union to produce more than a decade’s worth of missing financial statements.
Mr Fahy claimed the union had broken the law by not allowing its ...
DATE: Jun 27, 2011
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Politics
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Sam Strangeways
Former Premier Sir David Gibbons has told a Caribbean news magazine that Bermuda’s Government is “simply not competent” and that the Island’s reinsurance industry is “very healthy”.
In an interview published on Friday in Caribbean Journal, the former...
DATE: Jun 27, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A Canadian lawyer who defrauded the Government by pretending to have Bermudian roots is reported to be opposing attempts to disbar him in Ontario.
The Law Society of Upper Canada wants to revoke Robert Martyn's practising licence in the province, acc...
DATE: Jun 27, 2011
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