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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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Sam Strangeways
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
Bermuda law firm Trott & Duncan is being sued for more than $18 million by a US insurance company.
Fidelity National Title Insurance Company has filed a writ in the Supreme Court claiming that it became involved in a botched bid to build a luxury hot...
DATE: Apr 19, 2018
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Sam Strangeways
Two of the men behind a failed sports centre that swallowed up millions of tax dollars are trying to revive another charity.
Melvyn Bassett was managing director of Sandys 360,
and former treasurer Stanley Lee handled the finances of Sandys 360.
Now...
DATE: Apr 13, 2018
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Sam Strangeways
The Government is still to decide if betting shops need tougher regulation to block money laundering and terrorism funding as a critical international assessment looms on the horizon.
David Burt, the Premier and Minister of Finance, admitted in Novem...
DATE: Apr 13, 2018
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Sam Strangeways
An embargo has been imposed on the formation of companies involved in cryptocurrencies.
The government move was designed to allow for time to create a regulatory framework for the growing financial technology sector.
The temporary ban was welcomed ye...
DATE: Apr 11, 2018
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Sam Strangeways
Police are investigating three cases under a new anti-corruption law.
The inquiries fall under the Bribery Act 2016, which came into effect last year.
The probes were disclosed after a public access to information request to the Bermuda Police Servic...
DATE: Apr 06, 2018
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A woman who admitted importing more than $70,000 of cannabis to Bermuda was warned yesterday that she could face prison.
Magistrates’ Court heard that Natasha York, 41, of Slip Point Lane, St George’s, returned with her two young daughters from Toron...
DATE: Apr 05, 2018
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Court
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Sam Strangeways