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The mother of a 25-year-old heroin addict who died last year has been told it was not a drug overdose which killed him.
Lynn Spencer, whose son Christopher collapsed on October 27, 2012, received a call from Coroner’s officer Travis Powell on Thursda...
DATE: Nov 13, 2013
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Bermuda needs to relax its immigration policies and vastly improve the education level of locals if it is to remain competitive in the global job market, a meeting heard today.
Employment expert Doug Soares told Hamilton Rotarians that the Island nee...
DATE: Nov 12, 2013
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Tourism and Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell has accused his shadow counterpart Lawrence Scott of fabricating a figure about the cost to taxpayers of the charter ferry Millennium.
Opposition MP Mr Scott issued a press release claiming the private v...
DATE: Nov 07, 2013
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The mother of a 25-year-old heroin addict who died last year has been told it was not a drug overdose which killed him.
Lynn Spencer, whose son Christopher collapsed on October 27, 2012, received a call from Coroner’s officer Travis Powell on Thursda...
DATE: Nov 07, 2013
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The Attorney General of the Turks and Caicos Islands — a former Bermuda Crown counsel — resigned his post yesterday, hours after it was announced that former Premier Michael Misick would be extradited back to TCI from Brazil.
Huw Shepheard, a Welshma...
DATE: Oct 31, 2013
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The Department of Health has apologised to grieving mother Lynn Spencer for taking more than a year to complete a postmortem drug test on her late son.
But it has failed to explain why the Government Lab has taken so long to analyse blood, urine and ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2013
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The former chief of staff at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital threatened to block two doctors from setting up a new business if Bermuda Hospitals Board couldn’t be involved, it is alleged in court papers obtained by The Royal Gazette.
Plastic surgeo...
DATE: Oct 29, 2013
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The ashes of Christopher Spencer were released last night at sunset to mark the one-year anniversary of his death.
His friends and family met at his favourite beach at 6pm for a ceremony officiated by the Rt Rev Nicholas Dill, Bishop of Bermuda.
Spea...
DATE: Oct 28, 2013
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A teenager was given a suspended jail term for his part in a burglary which left an 85-year-old woman traumatised and frightened in her own home.
Denzel Chase, 19, of North Shore Road, Hamilton Parish, admitted receiving a $4,000 gold, diamond and sa...
DATE: Jul 26, 2013
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A taxpayer-funded foundation set up to manage and promote Bermuda’s historic slavery sites has lost its charitable status — but neither it nor Government will say why.
The African Diaspora Heritage Trail Foundation has received at least $1.6 million ...
DATE: Jul 25, 2013
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