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A widow who has raised thousands of dollars in memory of her late husband to help African orphans is appealing to Bermuda to support her latest plan.
Gaynell Hayward hopes in 2009 to be able to send vital drugs to Kenya to help lengthen the lifespan ...
DATE: Dec 29, 2008
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The sister of missing body parts victim Norman Palmer has welcomed news that an inquest into his death will be held in public.
Marion Bishop told The Royal Gazette she believed it was only being heard openly because of media coverage of the case and ...
DATE: Dec 29, 2008
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If you didn't know the phrase "A Right to Know" before 2008, chances are you're well acquainted with it now.
On January 21, The Royal Gazette launched a campaign to get a freedom of information law passed in Bermuda — and soon even Premier Ewart Brow...
DATE: Dec 29, 2008
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Margaret Hallett became principal of Somersfield Academy ten years ago and is now retiring early from the school to seek fresh challenges. She talked to The Royal Gazette about her time at one of the Island's three Montessori facilities.
Every week m...
DATE: Dec 22, 2008
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A man was fined $500 yesterday for having a crack pipe on his person.
Gary Gibbons, 48, pleaded guilty to the March 30, 2007 offence at Magistrates' Court.
The court heard the pipe was found on him by a Police officer who pulled him over on his motor...
DATE: Dec 19, 2008
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Ground was broken yesterday on a new building at Warwick Academy which will be named after a senator who has given decades of service to the school.
The Walwyn Hughes Building, half the cost of which has been funded by the Byrne family, will contain ...
DATE: Dec 18, 2008
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A "warning shot" was said yesterday to have been fired to Government over a new law which will allow bankrupt lawyers to practise in Bermuda.
Fifty attorneys attended a special general meeting of the Bermuda Bar Association and passed a resolution st...
DATE: Dec 18, 2008
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Lawyer Llewellyn Peniston has been suspended from legal practice for a month after admitting failing to produce his accounts for the Bermuda Bar Association.
The former UBP Senator admitted the charge in May but appealed against a three-month ban imp...
DATE: Dec 17, 2008
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Deputy Opposition Leader Trevor Moniz is urging barristers to have their say tomorrow on a controversial law — already approved in the House of Assembly on Friday — to let bankrupt lawyers practise in Bermuda.
A special general meeting of the Bermuda...
DATE: Dec 16, 2008
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The son-in-law of alleged elder abuse victim "Auntie Em" told a court that her family took care of her "to the best of our ability" before she was removed from her home.
Bus driver Patrick Hayward Sr., of Cox's Hill, Pembroke, was giving evidence on ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2008
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