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Questions were raised last night about why Bermuda Police Service’s senior officers weren’t given space in the new $92 million police and court building and are instead expected to occupy rented offices across the street.
Shadow Public Works Minister...
DATE: Dec 09, 2010
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Bermuda will be at the heart of a project to protect a precious ocean region, Environment Minister Walter Roban has revealed.
He told a reception at Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute (BUEI) that thanks to international private donors the Islan...
DATE: Dec 07, 2010
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THURSDAY, DECMBER 2: A “perfect storm” of social, psychological and economic issues has led to the wave of violent crime rocking Bermuda, according to a poverty campaigner.
Sheelagh Cooper, from the Coalition for the Protection of Children, told MPs ...
DATE: Dec 02, 2010
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US Consul General Grace Shelton and Governor Sir Richard Gozney yesterday denounced whistleblowing website Wikileaks for releasing confidential correspondence from American embassies around the world including 68 reports about Bermuda.
The huge leak ...
DATE: Nov 30, 2010
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A 30-year-old Bermudian man was gunned down in Queens, New York, yesterday afternoon.
Vaughan Carlos Allen, known as Bruggles, was shot multiple times in the torso just before 4pm on 224th Street. He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital where he was pronou...
DATE: Nov 30, 2010
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Bermuda should legalise marijuana, bring in a minimum wage and spend more money supporting talented young athletes and musicians, MPs were told.
Graeme Outerbridge and Ras Mykkal two citizens concerned about the Island’s spiralling crime rate gave pr...
DATE: Nov 29, 2010
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Whistleblowing website Wikileaks has begun releasing more than 250,000 classified cables from American embassies around the world - including 68 reports about Bermuda.
The huge data leak, reported to be the largest-ever release of confidential docume...
DATE: Nov 29, 2010
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An anti-conscription campaigner told a tribunal he should not be made to serve in the Bermuda Regiment because of the “inevitable” sexual and verbal abuse he would suffer.
Shaki Easton, 27, and three other members of Bermudians Against the Draft (BAD...
DATE: Nov 29, 2010
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HM Customs has at least 20 vacancies for officers but is struggling to find recruits who can pass the entrance exam — even though standards have been lowered.
Bermuda's Collector of Customs Winniefred Fostine-DeSilva told a joint parliamentary select...
DATE: Nov 26, 2010
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Prisons Commissioner Edward Lamb told yesterday how a notorious "thug" collapsed in tears after arriving at Westgate and being told he was a "beautiful and decent young man".
Lt Col Lamb, giving evidence to a joint parliamentary select committee on v...
DATE: Nov 26, 2010
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