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Government is proposing to sell seats on-board an aid plane bound for Haiti for $10,000 each.
Premier Ewart Brown announced the "novel idea" at a press conference yesterday, saying passengers would get to spend a few hours in the earthquake-hit Carib...
DATE: Jan 23, 2010
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A raft of measures to tackle gang and gun violence — including making parents liable under civil law for their children's crimes and giving Police new powers — was unveiled by Government yesterday.
Changes to the law will allow officers to disperse g...
DATE: Jan 23, 2010
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Bermuda-based broker Wesly Guiteau has found his missing brother and rescued a man buried under debris after travelling to Haiti to help with relief efforts.
The 39-year-old, who is originally from the Caribbean country, returned there last week afte...
DATE: Jan 22, 2010
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A row between the owners of Segway Tours Bermuda looks set to end up in court — after one sacked the other for allegedly "serious reasons".
Majority shareholder and president Ben Fairn told The Royal Gazette he got rid of Robert Territo — who ran the...
DATE: Jan 22, 2010
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Crime as a whole has gone down, according to Police statistics released this morning, but murders, robberies and sexual assaults have doubled compared to the same period last year.
Crime overall dropped by ten percent during the second quarter of the...
DATE: Jan 22, 2010
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A Washington DC office opened by the Bermuda Government four months ago to "immeasurably strengthen the links" between the Island and the US is still without staff.
Premier Ewart Brown described the opening of the facility close to Capitol Hill — whi...
DATE: Jan 21, 2010
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Public school principals have issued a statement calling on Education Minister El James to disclose before tomorrow the full proposal to close five primary schools.
The three-page document from the Association of School Principals (ASP) says that sch...
DATE: Jan 21, 2010
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Toby Mendel has spent much of his career studying freedom of information laws; he's even published two books about them.
So when he describes Bermuda's proposed public access to information (PATI) bill as "by and large, a pretty good draft," it's pro...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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Toby Mendel has spent much of his career studying freedom of information laws; he's even published two books about them.
So when he describes Bermuda's proposed public access to information (PATI) bill as "by and large, a pretty good draft," it's pro...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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Laura Neuman has travelled the world and seen a lot of transparency laws as part of her job as access to information project manager for the Carter Center in the States.
But she has never known a country respond in the way Bermuda did when asked to c...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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