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Shadow Home Affairs Minister Maxwell Burgess yesterday hit out at Premier Alex Scott's televised speech on law and order, accusing it of lacking gravity.
The Opposition MP questioned why the Premier, in his Wednesday evening broadcast, did not set ou...
DATE: Aug 18, 2006
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Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert last night called for Bermuda?s criminal justice system to be urgently reformed in the wake of a spate of gang violence.
Mr. Furbert unveiled a detailed plan to tackle crime in Bermuda ? produced in response to a telev...
DATE: Aug 18, 2006
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Prisoners at Westgate staged an overnight sit-down in protest at the medical treatment offered to an inmate.
The demonstration began at about 9 p.m. on Wednesday and involved about 20 men in the E2 unit of the jail. It had ended by 5 p.m. yesterday.
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DATE: Aug 18, 2006
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The Government is taking legal advice on how to recoup a ?substantial? amount of money paid out to an American supplier for golf course grass which never arrived on the Island.understands that the board of trustees responsible for Bermuda?s three Gov...
DATE: Aug 16, 2006
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An expert on gang violence who grew up in the Bermudian neighbourhood where teenager Jason Lightbourne was shot dead last month warned yesterday that the Island needed to act now to stamp out a growing thug mentality.
Dennis Rahiim Watson, chairman o...
DATE: Aug 16, 2006
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It may be the hot topic of the moment but for Michael Ray, the outgoing president of Bermuda Taxi Association (BTA), the issue of GPS is a dead one.
He once led the Island?s cabbies in revolt against Tourism and Transport Minister Ewart Brown?s propo...
DATE: Aug 14, 2006
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The president of the Island?s largest taxi dispatching firm has admitted that more than half his company?s drivers are still not using a new mandatory satellite navigation system.
Michael Ray, president and a shareholder in BTA (Dispatching), reveale...
DATE: Aug 14, 2006
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Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert has criticised the Premier for making remarks about slavery during a radio interview on independence.
Mr. Furbert claimed the Premier made the comments on Friday on VSB Radio in response to a press conference he had he...
DATE: Aug 14, 2006
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A promised pay rise for hospital staff is to be delayed by a month, health chiefs admitted this week.
Workers at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEMH) were due to get a four per cent pay increase in this month?s pay packet, backdated to October.
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DATE: Aug 12, 2006
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Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert yesterday called on Government to hold an immediate referendum on Independence ? and revealed that if one was held he would vote against Bermuda going it alone.
Mr. Furbert called a press conference at United Bermuda P...
DATE: Aug 11, 2006
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