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Health chiefs have admitted they failed to carry out a “reasonable search” for records about incidents that resulted in harm to patients at the island’s general hospital.
The Bermuda Hospitals Board initially told The Royal Gazette, in response to a ...
DATE: Feb 13, 2019
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Patients whose health records were seized in police raids on Ewart Brown’s medical clinics do not want their files to be examined by detectives, their lawyer insisted yesterday.
Jerome Lynch QC told the Supreme Court that the 150 or so people he repr...
DATE: Feb 13, 2019
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The island’s gambling watchdog has been rapped on the knuckles for the second time this month for a failure to comply with public access to information rules.
Cheryl-Ann Mapp, chairwoman of the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission, did not provide The Ro...
DATE: Feb 12, 2019
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The acting chief executive of Bermuda’s healthcare watchdog set up a company with a top executive from the US-based Lahey Clinic but “immediately terminated” the arrangement because of a potential conflict of interest, it has been revealed.
Ricky Bra...
DATE: Feb 08, 2019
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The head of the island’s gambling watchdog has been ordered to reveal the reasons for its decision not to release records on betting shops to The Royal Gazette.
Cheryl Ann Mapp, chairwoman of the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission, was told by Gitanjal...
DATE: Feb 08, 2019
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Bermuda will find it hard to promote itself as a “sparklingly clean” gambling jurisdiction if the industry regulator is not upfront about its own finances, overseas experts have warned.
Gene Johnson, a gaming consultant, told The Royal Gazette that a...
DATE: Feb 02, 2019
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Campaigners have called for the findings of an inquiry into allegations of misconduct at the island’s child protection agency to be made public.
Lawyer Saul Dismont, who wrote the letter of complaint that triggered the inquiry, said yesterday: “I wou...
DATE: Feb 01, 2019
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Tawanna Wedderburn, the fired chief executive of the Bermuda Health Council, was the target for much of Ewart Brown’s anger over cuts to fees for medical scans.
The former premier named her and two other public servants at a press conference he stage...
DATE: Jan 30, 2019
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Two staff members at the island’s child protection agency have been disciplined after allegations of abuse and neglect against them were “substantiated”, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Police confirmed yesterday that neither incident had been reported...
DATE: Jan 28, 2019
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The island’s gambling regulator splashed out almost $600,000 on legal services over the past two years, it was revealed yesterday.
The figure was reported as the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission published details in the Official Gazette of all the co...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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