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Police have launched an investigation to find out who leaked a confidential Cabinet memo detailing a government plan to buy the Swan Building for almost $25 million.
Civil servants have already been questioned about the unauthorised disclosure, a sou...
DATE: Dec 19, 2009
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A Supreme Court judge will today rule on whether The Royal Gazette can print information which Government wants to keep under wraps.
A hearing lasting almost two hours took place before Puisne Judge Geoffrey Bell yesterday afternoon after an applicat...
DATE: Dec 18, 2009
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Government was planning to buy a building in the centre of Hamilton for almost $25 million from former Premier Sir John Swan, The Royal Gazette can reveal today.
A temporary gag preventing us from printing details of the secret deal to purchase the S...
DATE: Dec 18, 2009
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A Supreme Court judge will today rule on whether The Royal Gazette can print information which Government wants to keep under wraps.
A hearing lasting almost two hours took place before Puisne Judge Geoffrey Bell yesterday afternoon after an applicat...
DATE: Dec 18, 2009
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A court order banning The Royal Gazette from publishing information which Government wants to keep secret remained in place last night.
But this newspaper pledged to fight the injunction — imposed by Puisne Judge Geoffrey Bell late on Tuesday evening...
DATE: Dec 17, 2009
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A movement aimed at tackling Bermuda's gang problem is "part organisation, part military campaign", one of its co-founders said at a public meeting last night.
Lou Matthews told members of We Will Rise Above, Bermuda: "We are organising soldiers to g...
DATE: Dec 15, 2009
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A father-of-one caught smuggling almost $59,000 worth of cannabis into Bermuda was yesterday jailed for three years.
Tyshaon Palmer Rawlins, 24, was convicted by a unanimous jury of bringing eight slabs of the drug in on a JetBlue flight from New Yor...
DATE: Dec 15, 2009
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Bermudians need to stop being silent and speak up when they know about crime, Government backbenchers insisted on Friday.
Terry Lister told the House of Assembly he couldn't understand why more people weren't calling the confidential Crime Stoppers t...
DATE: Dec 14, 2009
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Government has dropped the ball on apprenticeship schemes for young Bermudians, Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons told the House of Assembly on Friday.
He said it was shocking that out of 22 occupational advisory committees set up to ensure tra...
DATE: Dec 14, 2009
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The body of a 64-year-old man was found in a house in Lighthouse Lane, Southampton just before 7 p.m. last night.
Police said they had launched an investigation into the sudden death and had not yet ruled out foul play.
A spokesman said: “Police firs...
DATE: Dec 12, 2009
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