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Government was planning to buy a building in the centre of Hamilton for almost $25 million from former Premier Sir John Swan, The Royal Gazette can reveal today.
A temporary gag preventing us from printing details of the secret deal to purchase the S...
DATE: Dec 18, 2009
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A court order banning The Royal Gazette from publishing information which Government wants to keep secret remained in place last night.
But this newspaper pledged to fight the injunction — imposed by Puisne Judge Geoffrey Bell late on Tuesday evening...
DATE: Dec 17, 2009
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A movement aimed at tackling Bermuda's gang problem is "part organisation, part military campaign", one of its co-founders said at a public meeting last night.
Lou Matthews told members of We Will Rise Above, Bermuda: "We are organising soldiers to g...
DATE: Dec 15, 2009
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A father-of-one caught smuggling almost $59,000 worth of cannabis into Bermuda was yesterday jailed for three years.
Tyshaon Palmer Rawlins, 24, was convicted by a unanimous jury of bringing eight slabs of the drug in on a JetBlue flight from New Yor...
DATE: Dec 15, 2009
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Bermudians need to stop being silent and speak up when they know about crime, Government backbenchers insisted on Friday.
Terry Lister told the House of Assembly he couldn't understand why more people weren't calling the confidential Crime Stoppers t...
DATE: Dec 14, 2009
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Government has dropped the ball on apprenticeship schemes for young Bermudians, Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons told the House of Assembly on Friday.
He said it was shocking that out of 22 occupational advisory committees set up to ensure tra...
DATE: Dec 14, 2009
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The body of a 64-year-old man was found in a house in Lighthouse Lane, Southampton just before 7 p.m. last night.
Police said they had launched an investigation into the sudden death and had not yet ruled out foul play.
A spokesman said: “Police firs...
DATE: Dec 12, 2009
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The body of a 64-year-old man was found in a house in Lighthouse Lane, Southampton just before 7 p.m. last night.
Police said they had launched an investigation into the sudden death and had not yet ruled out foul play.
A spokesman said: "Police firs...
DATE: Dec 12, 2009
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Government backbencher Patrice Minors claimed last night that young women "on the arms of thugs" are not innocent when it comes to the crimes perpetrated by their partners.
She told the House of Assembly during the Motion to Adjourn debate that it wa...
DATE: Dec 12, 2009
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Bermuda's four Uighurs expect to be given passports after a year on the Island, they told The Royal Gazette this week.
The men — who arrived from Guantánamo Bay exactly six months ago — said their American lawyer advised them they would not be able t...
DATE: Dec 11, 2009
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