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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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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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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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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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Sam Strangeways
A 21-year-old who claims he was subjected to a string of sexual assaults by a much older man while still a teenager told a court yesterday he could not “forget or forgive”.
Mr X was giving evidence on the second day of the Magistrates’ Court trial of...
DATE: Jan 19, 2011
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