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A restaurateur has told how his “worst nightmare” came true when a rat ran into his establishment from the street and leapt on to the shoulder of a female customer.
The incident happened in broad daylight on Friday morning when the facility was packe...
DATE: Dec 09, 2015
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Perot Post Office in Hamilton has now opened for business after a faulty lock prevented staff from getting into the premises this morning.
Postmaster-General Wayne Smith told The Royal Gazette: “The Perot Post Office had a faulty lock this morning an...
DATE: Dec 09, 2015
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A mother has described her gay son and his partner as “very courageous” for launching a bid to have Bermuda’s first same-sex marriage.
Sylvia Hayward-Harris told The Royal Gazette it was typical of her son Ijumo Hayward to “not worry about public app...
DATE: Dec 04, 2015
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A gay couple seeking permission to marry in Bermuda are highly likely to succeed if their case goes before the courts, according to a human rights expert.
Lawyer Mark Diel said recent court judgments regarding same-sex couples in Bermuda showed the I...
DATE: Dec 04, 2015
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A former United Bermuda Party minister has weighed in on the Bermuda Government’s $250 million plan to build a new airport, claiming the project is unnecessary.
Quinton Edness, who retired from politics in 1998, said he had heard nothing yet from the...
DATE: Dec 03, 2015
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A gay Bermudian who is hoping to marry his partner on the Island wants his landmark case to end a culture of people being forced to “live either a lie or in the shadows or behind closed doors”.
Ijumo Hayward, 46, and his American partner Clarence Wil...
DATE: Dec 03, 2015
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Former minister Quinton Edness is calling on the Cabinet to launch an immediate investigation into the most recent findings of the Auditor-General.
Mr Edness said scrutiny of the “litany of non-compliance with financial instructions (FIs) and related...
DATE: Dec 02, 2015
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Civil servants wasted $2.6 million of public funds by making duplicate payments, according to the Auditor-General’s latest report.
The transactions included a payment of $807,000 in 2012 to Sandys 360, the West End sports facility that closed its doo...
DATE: Nov 27, 2015
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A hotel may find itself in hot water over its decision to axe two talks by a same-sex marriage opponent, according to one of the Island’s leading human rights lawyers.
Tim Marshall, of Marshall Diel & Myers, told The Royal Gazette he believed Hamilto...
DATE: Nov 27, 2015
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Hamilton Princess, Bermuda was both applauded and criticised yesterday for pulling the plug on two talks by a prominent same-sex marriage opponent.
Ryan Anderson, a member of the conservative American think-tank the Heritage Foundation, was to speak ...
DATE: Nov 26, 2015
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