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Three former Premiers revealed yesterday that their mail was subject to searches by customs officers when they led the country -and said they wouldn’t have had it any other way.
Alex Scott, David Saul and Sir David Gibbons told The Royal Gazette that...
DATE: Jun 25, 2010
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Police are investigating an allegation of criminal libel made by a detective against high-profile lawyer Charles Richardson.
And Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva is understood to have made a complaint to Bermuda Bar Council about the behaviour of ...
DATE: Jun 25, 2010
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Customs officers have been given instructions to speak to a supervisor before checking the Premier's courier mail — and he has allegedly told them he doesn't "appreciate" packages being searched.
Collector of Customs Winniefred Fostine-DeSilva sent t...
DATE: Jun 24, 2010
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Convicted murderer Troy Shorter was back before the courts last month where he was given a 12-month conditional discharge for common assault.
Shorter, who is on licence after being released from jail, appeared at Magistrates' Court on May 12 in conne...
DATE: Jun 18, 2010
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A British coroner will definitely hold an inquest into the death in Bermuda of missing body parts victim Norman Palmer.
The inquiry into how the 57-year-old died at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital on April 12, 2008, is expected to take place in May...
DATE: Jun 17, 2010
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Immigration Minister David Burch was advised to "check" himself by the Senate President yesterday after he told his Opposition counterpart Michael Dunkley in the Upper Chamber: "You are not in charge here."
Senator Burch made the remark after refusin...
DATE: Jun 17, 2010
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Housing Minister David Burch yesterday alleged that three opposition MPs never mentioned "their own potential criminal behaviour" when they called for next week's land licence deadline to be extended.
In a statement to the Senate in which he announce...
DATE: Jun 17, 2010
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A government body which compensates victims of crime has been given a budget of $356,000 less this year than it spent in 2008/9 — despite a recent upsurge in murders and shootings.
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (CICB) has been allocated $4...
DATE: Jun 16, 2010
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Ombudsman Arlene Brock says Government has given "inadequate or inappropriate" responses to a third of the recommendations she made last year for improving the Bermuda Archives.
In a special report tabled in the House of Assembly on Friday, Ms Brock ...
DATE: Jun 16, 2010
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The UK remains adamant that Bermuda's four Uighurs have no entitlement to British nationality — a year after their arrival on the Island.
Governor Sir Richard Gozney told The Royal Gazette this week that talks continued between Britain and the US abo...
DATE: Jun 11, 2010
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