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According to her last boss, Tekania Swan is a “very bright and energetic individual who takes exceptional pride in her work” and is a “person of utmost integrity and honesty”.
The 33-year-old is described by the manager of the furniture store where s...
DATE: Feb 15, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
Giving permission for Tucker’s Point to extend its five-star resort is not a “slap in the face” to the original residents of the land or their descendants, Government insisted yesterday.
It released a statement in response to the claim made last week...
DATE: Feb 14, 2011
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Ten days ago Mangrove Bay was the scene of a shocking gun murder in broad daylight.
But last night the mayhem was replaced with sorrow, remembrance and hope as Colford Ferguson’s family, friends and neighbours gathered to honour him.
An emotional can...
DATE: Feb 14, 2011
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The family and friends of murder victim Colford Ferguson gathered at the scene of his death this evening for a candlelit vigil.
About 40 people attended the remembrance event outside the house where he was killed on the corner of East Shore Road and ...
DATE: Feb 12, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
Opposition MPs raised concerns in Parliament yesterday about whether senior staff at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital are benefiting from a revenue-raising health partnership scheme.
But Health Minister Zane DeSilva refuted the claim and Bermuda Hos...
DATE: Feb 12, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda can follow the example of other countries in making health care more accessible and less expensive, Health Minister Zane DeSilva said yesterday.
Mr DeSilva delivered a stinging attack on the way health care has been funded in Bermuda as he la...
DATE: Feb 12, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda Hospitals Board has cut short its multi-million dollar five-year contract with Kurron Shares by 18 months to save money, it announced last night.
The publicly-funded quango revealed the news in a statement released shortly after Shadow Health...
DATE: Feb 12, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Former Regiment commanding officer Edward Lamb said yesterday he used the “full brunt of the law” to discipline a soldier who assaulted another soldier in Grenada in 2005.
The private was given 56 days in military prison after an incident described b...
DATE: Feb 11, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Questions have been raised as to whether the Bermuda Regiment properly handled a soldier-on-soldier assault after it was described in court this week as an attempted knifepoint rape.
Regiment commanding officer (CO) Brian Gonsalves told a Supreme Cou...
DATE: Feb 11, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda Regiment should not have tried to hush-up the attempted rape of a soldier in Grenada, according to a conscript who was on the 2005 hurricane-relief trip.
The man, who asked not to be named, told The Royal Gazette he was “disgusted” that the R...
DATE: Feb 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
