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The deputy chairman of the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission is expected to resign today.
Sources told The Royal Gazette that Garry Madeiros was set to step down at the end of a meeting at the regulatory body’s office this afternoon.
The meeting is th...
DATE: Dec 06, 2017
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A repeat drug offender caught with cannabis and cocaine near to a children’s nursery avoided prison yesterday, after asking a magistrate for “mercy”.
Tamiko Wainwright, 41, of King Street, Pembroke, was instead fined $4,350 after pleading guilty in M...
DATE: Dec 01, 2017
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A Washington lobbying firm run by president Barack Obama’s former senior political strategist has landed a $20,000-a-month consulting contract with the Government of Bermuda.
TheGroup, which describes itself as an independent strategy, policy and com...
DATE: Dec 01, 2017
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A motorist who admitted driving at 72km/h received a fine at Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
Arian Franks, 29, also pleaded guilty to riding an unlicensed motorcycle and having no insurance, on a separate date.
Franks, whose address was not given, got ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2017
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A 21-year-old motorcyclist who led police officers on a 5am chase told them he was “just going home” when he was caught.
Lezano Hewey Darrell pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and speeding at Magistrates’ Court yesterday, where he received an 18-mo...
DATE: Dec 01, 2017
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Restaurant-goers in Bermuda can now check hygiene and food safety standards at their favourite eating-out spots after health watchdogs decided to go public with results of health inspections at food service outlets.
The “grades on licences” scheme wa...
DATE: Nov 30, 2017
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Critics at home and overseas continued yesterday to pour scorn over a plan to bring the island’s casino regulatory body under ministerial control.
The Casino Gaming Amendment Act 2017, expected to be debated and approved in Parliament early next mont...
DATE: Nov 24, 2017
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The executive director of the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission quit his job after he decided the island’s leaders lacked the “political will” to keep the industry corruption-free.
Richard Schuetz, in a letter to commission chairman Alan Dunch seen by...
DATE: Nov 23, 2017
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The Government will not withdraw its controversial plan to bring the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission under ministerial control, tourism minister Jamahl Simmons said yesterday.
Mr Simmons, moments after Cheryl-Ann Mapp was announced as the new commis...
DATE: Nov 22, 2017
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Politics
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Sam Strangeways
The neighbours of Bermuda’s biggest dairy farm will get the chance to air complaints about what they claim is an “unbearable” cow manure smell and “epidemic” fly problem at a meeting tomorrow.
Disgruntled residents who live near Green Land Dairy Far...
DATE: Nov 20, 2017
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