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A care home recovering from an outbreak of Covid-19 has a new executive director who is no stranger to a crisis.
April Augustus will take the helm at Westmeath Nursing and Residential Home on Monday, after a year-long stint as executive director at ...
DATE: Jun 10, 2020
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The Information Commissioner has upheld a decision by the police not to release records on the sale of foreign lottery tickets at a betting shop because there was “minimal” public interest.
Gitanjali Gutierrez said: “There is no evidence that the saf...
DATE: Feb 27, 2020
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The Human Rights Commission withdrew from a legal bid to ensure children’s rights to be represented in court were upheld, without explaining why.
The commission, an independent statutory body charged with promoting and protecting human rights in Berm...
DATE: Jun 22, 2019
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The information commissioner has asked the Cabinet Office minister to give civil servants guidelines on how to deal with public access to information requests and the proper management of public records.
Gitanjali Gutierrez said in her office’s 2018 ...
DATE: Mar 27, 2019
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A New York investment firm that is in the process of buying Bermuda Commercial Bank has “no plans with regard to gaming”, one of its principals insisted yesterday.
Lewis Katz, managing partner of Permanent Capital, was asked by The Royal Gazette to c...
DATE: Mar 07, 2019
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The acting executive director of the island’s gambling watchdog has left her post, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Deborah Blakeney, general counsel at the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission, had headed up the public authority after the resignation of Ri...
DATE: Feb 18, 2019
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Patients whose health records were seized in police raids on Ewart Brown’s medical clinics do not want their files to be examined by detectives, their lawyer insisted yesterday.
Jerome Lynch QC told the Supreme Court that the 150 or so people he repr...
DATE: Feb 13, 2019
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The island’s gambling watchdog has been rapped on the knuckles for the second time this month for a failure to comply with public access to information rules.
Cheryl-Ann Mapp, chairwoman of the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission, did not provide The Ro...
DATE: Feb 12, 2019
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Bermuda will find it hard to promote itself as a “sparklingly clean” gambling jurisdiction if the industry regulator is not upfront about its own finances, overseas experts have warned.
Gene Johnson, a gaming consultant, told The Royal Gazette that a...
DATE: Feb 02, 2019
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The island’s gambling regulator splashed out almost $600,000 on legal services over the past two years, it was revealed yesterday.
The figure was reported as the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission published details in the Official Gazette of all the co...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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