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Ten workers have been laid off at Paterson Contracting due to the sluggish construction industry.
The local company, which employs 35 people and is based on Harbour Road, has issued lay-off letters to eight Bermudians and two foreign workers.
Financi...
DATE: Jan 25, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
High winds swept across Bermuda at the weekend causing an unusual incident with a trampoline for one family.
Sally Topley, 45, was convinced a tornado had swept through her back garden in the early hours of Saturday after she woke to find her childre...
DATE: Jan 24, 2011
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A grassroots movement based in Bermuda’s gang heartland has won an award for its efforts to help rebuild a community torn apart by violence.
One Community Unified a collaboration of churches, police and other organisations in east Pembroke was presen...
DATE: Jan 24, 2011
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An alleged sex assault victim made a complaint to the Human Rights Commission (HRC) about his former manager, a court heard on Friday.
Mr X was quizzed about the grievance by Shade Subair, who is both defence lawyer for the manager and chairman of th...
DATE: Jan 24, 2011
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Education Commissioner Wendy McDonnell has been tasked with improving teaching and learning in public schools almost four years after a team of experts raised the alarm about standards.
Mrs McDonnell will give up her role running the Department of Ed...
DATE: Jan 22, 2011
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The daughter of alleged elder abuse victim “Auntie Em” is appealing a magistrate’s judgement which found she owed $25,000 to a caregiver who looked after her mother.
Rosamund Hayward, 53, of Upland Street, Devonshire, was ordered to pay the money to ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2011
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Court
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Sam Strangeways
A defence lawyer yesterday branded an alleged sex assault victim “a liar and a thief” as she recounted his criminal past.
Shade Subair revealed the convictions of 21-year-old former office clerk Mr X as she cross-examined him during the trial of her ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2011
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Court
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Sam Strangeways
Unionised Belco workers have revealed they rejected a pay freeze because it came with no assurances on job security.
The Electricity Supply Trade Union (ESTU) issued a statement yesterday which said the utility company requested the freeze a year aft...
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
A former office clerk was pushed onto a bed and pinned down by his manager before being sexually assaulted, he told a court yesterday.
Mr X, 21, who claims the older man attacked him repeatedly between February and June 2009, said the alleged inciden...
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
Government should get rid of an overseas contractor hired to help revamp the bus timetable and let drivers devise a new one, according to union officials.
They say tens of thousands of taxpayers' dollars could be saved if the Department of Public Tra...
DATE: Jan 19, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
