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Backbencher Dale Butler is the people's choice to succeed Ewart Brown as Premier — but Finance Minister Paula Cox remains the favourite among Progressive Labour Party supporters.
Thirty-six percent of people want Mr. Butler to lead the Country from O...
DATE: Apr 29, 2010
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Rich descendants of slave owners should pour cash into programmes tackling social problems, according to Cabinet Minister Zane DeSilva.
Mr. DeSilva also called for poorer people to save their money instead of blowing it on things they don't need, lik...
DATE: Apr 21, 2010
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As the United Bermuda Party lines up its candidates for the next General Election, some people might wonder why some of them are even bothering at all.
After all, research has shown 18 of Bermuda's 36 seats are Progressive Labour Party bankers — seem...
DATE: Apr 21, 2010
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Calls are growing for a major debate on decriminalising cannabis, with support said to be strong in some corners of the Progressive Labour Party.
Government Senator Walton Brown yesterday advocated a caucus discussion on Bermuda's drugs laws, claimin...
DATE: Apr 15, 2010
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Devonshire East has traditionally been a United Bermuda Party seat, but the Progressive Labour Party has already stated its intention to pinch it at the next General Election.
Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards defeated the PLP's Neville Tyrrell by...
DATE: Apr 14, 2010
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Residents are calling for CCTV in an area next to Elliot Primary School said to be a magnet for congregating youths.
Young people are said to gather and drink in the evenings on a grassy spot at Devon Spring Road's junction with Hermitage Road, borde...
DATE: Apr 14, 2010
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Decriminalising cannabis alone would lead to the streets being flooded with harder drugs, a former heroin pusher believes.
Jahma Gibbons — who made $10,000 a day selling heroin in Bermuda several years ago — said dealers would simply switch to more d...
DATE: Apr 12, 2010
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He was notorious for beating people up if they owed him a few dollars and even sold heroin to his own father, the Olympic medal-winning boxer Clarence Hill.
But Jahma Gibbons turned his life around remarkably following a piece of advice from his barb...
DATE: Apr 12, 2010
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Children as young as 11 act as helpers to drug pushers on the streets, says former gang member Jahma Gibbons.
Mr. Gibbons says growing numbers of youngsters take part in illegal activity — to get cash to buy sneakers or gold chains — and are on the p...
DATE: Apr 12, 2010
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Bermuda's gun death victims have been haunted by their own lifestyles, according to a former gang member who knew many of them.
Jahma Gibbons, 33, who used to sell heroin but changed his ways about six years ago, said there always has to be a reason ...
DATE: Apr 12, 2010
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