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Public Safety Minister David Burch's call for more aggressive Police action was "the most arrogant and dangerous diatribe" he has ever made, an Opposition MP said yesterday.
Shadow Attorney General Mark Pettingill claimed Senator Burch was "borderlin...
DATE: Mar 05, 2009
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Police need to take "decisive, aggressive and appropriately violent action" to tackle Bermuda's criminals, Public Safety Minister David Burch claimed yesterday.
The Minister, defending a $2.3 million cut in the Policing budget this year, told a press...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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MPs have approved legislation which will allow Government to increase its overdraft from $15 million to more than $110 million this year.
The Temporary Loans Amendment Act 2009 was passed in the House of Assembly on Monday evening and will enable Gov...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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Shadow Housing Minister Donte Hunt has said Government needs to "drill down more" and give better detail on planned projects in their annual Budget. The Opposition MP told the House of Assembly on Monday that he couldn't see an overall plan for housi...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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It costs almost four times as much to keep a prisoner at Westgate as to educate a child, Opposition MP Patricia Gordon-Pamplin claimed in Parliament this week.
The Shadow Works and Engineering Minister said a way of deploying resources more effective...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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Public Safety Minister David Burch yesterday described an armed gang attack in Hamilton Parish which left three men needing hospital treatment as "a very sorry commentary on our country".
He told a press conference that it was "almost incomprehensibl...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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A 22-year-old man was left battered and bloodied on the roadside after a gang hunted him down in Hamilton Parish at the weekend.
Police said a group of men "brandishing various objects" attacked the father-of-two on North Church Lane at about 10.45 p...
DATE: Mar 02, 2009
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A teenage motorcyclist was treated in hospital for injuries to her foot and elbows after she came off her bike on Middle Road in Paget.
The accident involving a 17-year-old girl from Southampton happened just before 6.15 p.m. on Friday.
Police said ...
DATE: Mar 02, 2009
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Hardy souls stripped off and braved the chilly waters of the Atlantic on Saturday to raise money for charity.
About 30 people ran into the sea at John Smith's Bay for the first annual "Polar Bear Plunge" in aid of Youth on the Move.
The Elliott Stree...
DATE: Mar 02, 2009
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The former GP of missing organs victim Norman Palmer has insisted she did not deliberately stay away from an inquest into his death.
Monica Hoefert, who is facing a potential lawsuit from the 57-year-old's family, said she was unaware that the hearin...
DATE: Mar 02, 2009
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