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A child sex abuse prevention charity has cleared another hurdle in its bid to fight the release of a high-risk paedophile from jail.
Saving Children and Revealing Secrets applied to the Supreme Court for a judicial review of the decision to release J...
DATE: May 23, 2018
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A judge has rejected businessman Wendall Brown’s attempt to have a government lawsuit against him and one of his companies thrown out.
The civil action accused Mr Brown and Zane DeSilva, a Progressive Labour Party MP, of profiting from their former p...
DATE: May 18, 2018
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Businessman Wendall Brown asked a judge yesterday to throw out a lawsuit brought against him and one of his companies by the former One Bermuda Alliance government.
The civil action accused Mr Brown and Zane DeSilva, a Progressive Labour Party MP, of...
DATE: May 10, 2018
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A multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed against three former trustees of Port Royal Golf Course by the One Bermuda Alliance government is back on the Supreme Court list.
A hearing on the case is scheduled to take place before Puisne Judge Stephen Hellman...
DATE: May 09, 2018
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David Burt is expected to tell MPs today whether Bermuda will take legal action against the UK over a move compelling the island to make its company ownership registry public by the end of 2020.
The Premier and Minister of Finance is likely to make a...
DATE: May 04, 2018
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Former finance minister Bob Richards has accused British MPs of betraying an inherent bias by forcing Bermuda and the other Overseas Territories to be transparent on company ownership.
Mr Richards described the British Parliament’s decision on Tuesda...
DATE: May 04, 2018
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The Department of Health has been ordered to reconsider its refusal to release health and safety records for the island’s childcare facilities under public access to information.
The department, which rejected a 2016 Pati request from The Royal Gazet...
DATE: May 04, 2018
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Bermuda’s biggest dairy farm is to install specialist equipment to try to reduce the smell of manure after repeated complaints from neighbours.
Green Land Dairy Farm, on Store Hill in Smith’s, has worked with the Department of Health to solve the pro...
DATE: Apr 27, 2018
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A tourist said Bermudians were the “nicest” people on earth yesterday after her missing purse was handed in to police with cash and other valuables still inside.
Jitana Stott, 74, from St Augustine Beach, Florida, was horrified when she found her pur...
DATE: Apr 20, 2018
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Tourism
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Sam Strangeways
Experts say the discovery of a dead shark on a South shore beach this week might indicate commercial longline fishing activity not far from Bermuda’s shores.
Video footage of the creature was circulated on social media, including to Choy Aming, of th...
DATE: Apr 20, 2018
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Environment
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Sam Strangeways