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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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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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Health
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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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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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Health
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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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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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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda Hospitals Board has cut short its multi-million dollar five-year contract with Kurron Shares Inc by 18 months to save money, it announced tonight.
The publicly-funded quango revealed the news in a statement released shortly after Shadow Healt...
DATE: Feb 10, 2011
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda must do all it can to fight the “pervasive sentiment” here and abroad that it is “closed for business”, a top insurance executive insisted yesterday.
Peter Durhager, executive vice president of Renaissance Re, told Hamilton Rotarians that a “...
DATE: Feb 09, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
A former office manager standing trial for a series of alleged sex attacks on a much younger employee may have assaulted others “many, many times” and got away with it, according to his accuser.
The 21-year-old man, Mr X, made the claim under cross-e...
DATE: Feb 09, 2011
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
