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The van driver cleared on a legal technicality of killing bartender Larry Thomas was previously let off another drink driving charge — after police failed to show up for his trial.
Roger Bowen, 26, was involved in a crash in the early hours of Februa...
DATE: Nov 02, 2009
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The US Navy has been accused of listening in to the telephone calls of Bermuda Government officials during negotiations over the baselands 15 years ago.
Author Don Grearson makes the claim in his new book 'USS Bermuda' in which he says fears about "w...
DATE: Oct 31, 2009
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The US has "closed the file" on its former baselands in Bermuda and is highly unlikely to ever reopen discussions on the clean-up of the land, according to the author of a new book.
Don Grearson, whose 450-page 'USS Bermuda — The Rise and Fall of an ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2009
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Sacked Summerhaven administrator Ianthia Wade is still fighting to get her job back almost 18 months after she was fired, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The widow of former Progressive Labour Party leader Frederick Wade reported her June 2008 dismissa...
DATE: Oct 30, 2009
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A residential facility for the physically challenged is to undergo an independent review — a year after Police were called in to investigate irregular accounts.
Summerhaven in Smith's — which is part funded with almost half a million dollars of publi...
DATE: Oct 29, 2009
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A former AS Cooper employee who claims she suffered long-term injuries after falling through a rotten floorboard in the store is begging the company to compensate her.
Yvonne Dawson told The Royal Gazette she still suffered major health problems alle...
DATE: Oct 27, 2009
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A global human rights organisation has welcomed Bermuda's draft freedom of information bill, calling it a "very progressive document".
But Article 19 yesterday urged Government to revise the proposed legislation to ensure it meets international stand...
DATE: Oct 27, 2009
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Bermuda could soon follow countless developed democracies around the world by passing a law giving taxpayers the right to access information held by public authorities.
But just how much openness would the proposed public access to information (PATI)...
DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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Bermuda's proposed freedom of information law would give the public scant access to the real workings of government, according to lawyer Timothy Marshall.
The draft public access to information (PATI) bill says records would be exempt from disclosure...
DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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A group lobbying for discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation to be outlawed is holding a workshop this weekend for supporters.
Suzanne Mayall, from Two Words and a Comma, said in an e-mail promoting the session that it was aimed at empowe...
DATE: Oct 23, 2009
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