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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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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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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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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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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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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda may need to rethink its "protectionist policies" on company ownership if it is to survive the recession and return to economic stability, a meeting heard today.
Peter Durhager, co-chairman of Bermuda First, asked Hamilton Rotary Club if the 6...
DATE: Feb 08, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
The Department of Planning has accused construction firm BCM McAlpine of “abusing” its efforts to facilitate emergency foreshore work at an Opposition MP’s home.
But company president Alan Burland refuted the claim and questioned why planners didn’t ...
DATE: Feb 08, 2011
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