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Veteran Government backbencher Walter Lister has suggested a Bermudian should do Governor Sir Richard Gozney’s job and would probably come “at a better price”.
He spoke out in the House of Assembly after fellow Progressive Labour Party MP Marc Bean c...
DATE: May 30, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
United Bermuda Party leader Kim Swan has dropped his injunction against defecting members who founded the One Bermuda Alliance.
Mr Swan confirmed the move yesterday during an ill-tempered House of Assembly session as former Opposition colleagues rowe...
DATE: May 29, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A 21-year-old man who held up a shop at gunpoint after a loan shark threatened to kill him and his family was jailed for eight years yesterday.
Curtis Mallory, of Warwick, carried out the armed robbery at Fresh ‘N’ New, on Devil’s Hole Hill, Smith’s,...
DATE: May 08, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A 21-year-old armed robber who held up a Smith’s shop at gunpoint was sentenced to eight years in prison this morning.
Curtis Mallory, 21, burst into Fresh ‘N’ New, on Devil’s Hole Hill, on January 2 and pulled a firearm from the waistband of his pan...
DATE: May 06, 2011
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Shooting victim Ralph Burrows doesn’t know if he’ll ever get to go home.
Aged 41, he’s had to accept he may spend the rest of his days in the extended care unit at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
“That took a little while getting used to,” he says...
DATE: May 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Convicted gangsters could be sent overseas to jail under proposed new measures for tackling what Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva last night called a “form of domestic terrorism”.
He told a public meeting attended by several hundred people at the ...
DATE: May 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
US Consul General Grace Shelton told her bosses in Washington she had a “guarded confidence” that police in Bermuda were on the right track in tackling crime.
Her comment was written in a “sensitive” cable which she sent to the US Government on Janua...
DATE: May 03, 2011
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A “cool and levelheaded” British couple arrived safely in Bermuda last night after spending the previous 36 hours at sea bailing buckets of water out of their 44ft sloop.
The couple’s boat Dream or Two got into difficulties about 130 miles south-sout...
DATE: May 03, 2011
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Workers’ rights will come under the spotlight at a public forum taking place tomorrow.
The Committee for Migrant Workers is hosting the session at the Bermuda Industrial Union’s headquarters in Hamilton, from 5.30pm to 7pm.
Panelists include Catholi...
DATE: May 02, 2011
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A charity director claims the Island’s potential pensions crisis could be eased at almost no cost simply by adding a word to the Human Rights Act.
James McCulloch, treasurer of Age Concern, says it is “high time” discrimination on the grounds of age ...
DATE: May 02, 2011
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
