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Police officers have been cleared of accusations of abuse thanks to inbuilt recording machines on Tasers, Public Safety Minister David Burch said yesterday.
Sen. Burch told the Senate he's seen three videos exonerating officers accused of mistreating...
DATE: Aug 03, 2010
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Government Senator Marc Bean yesterday asked if "quasi international organisations" have an ulterior motive for imposing anti-money laundering and antiterrorism laws on Bermuda.
As Senators debated the latest in a long line of new measures to keep th...
DATE: Aug 03, 2010
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Government should have spent more time addressing social problems instead of just concentrating on how to punish criminals, Progressive Labour Party Senator Walton Brown said yesterday.
The Senator bemoaned his party's failure to introduce laws to st...
DATE: Aug 03, 2010
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Bermuda's outdated electoral map — which many believed had been dumped — could still be used in the unlikely event outgoing Premier Ewart Brown calls a summer General Election.
Dr. Brown had suggested an election could not happen until a redrawn map,...
DATE: Aug 02, 2010
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Any cash Bermuda Hospitals Board has to borrow as part of the hospital rebuild will count against Government's debt ceiling, the Ministry of Finance has confirmed.
Health Minister Walter Roban had told a press conference Government's guarantee to fin...
DATE: Aug 02, 2010
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Some might think all politicians' speeches should be limited to 140 characters — but backbencher Terry Lister appears to be Bermuda's first to start giving bite-size comments on social networking phenomenon Twitter.
The Progressive Labour Party leade...
DATE: Aug 02, 2010
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United Bermuda Party MP John Barritt has called for parliamentarians to up their game as he reflected on rule changes aimed at modernising the House of Assembly.
A new question period, and the opening up of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), are bo...
DATE: Jul 31, 2010
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Residents fear an accident is waiting to happen as parents speed along a narrow lane to drop their children off at preschool.
David Lopes said motorists charge along the tiny Lightbourne Lane, Smith's, as they take their youngsters to Montessori Prep...
DATE: Jul 28, 2010
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The United Bermuda Party was frustrated in its attempts to squeeze information on hospital finances out of Health Minister Walter Roban.
Mr. Roban was asked a succession of follow-up questions to his ministerial statement on improvements to health ca...
DATE: Jul 27, 2010
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A year after his dramatic exit from Cabinet, Terry Lister is planning to come back in the top job — and he wants to lead a Bermuda where everyone has a voice.
Because if 12 months on the sidelines has taught him one thing, it's that shutting people o...
DATE: Jul 27, 2010
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