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A child safety campaigner has called for urgent investment in more courtroom space so young victims of sex crimes do not have to wait years for their cases to be heard.
Debi Ray-Rivers, the founder an executive director of charity Saving Children and...
DATE: Jul 04, 2019
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A dossier of official correspondence about the Uighurs and their relatives has been released by the Government, ten years after the four men came to the island from Guantánamo Bay at the invitation of Ewart Brown.
The e-mails reveal how Bermuda’s top...
DATE: Jul 01, 2019
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Three “brave abused” children and a handful of charities successfully fought for a legal change that will protect youngsters by ensuring they have independent representation in court, the groups involved in a Court of Appeal case said yesterday.
A jo...
DATE: Jun 24, 2019
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The Human Rights Commission withdrew from a legal bid to ensure children’s rights to be represented in court were upheld, without explaining why.
The commission, an independent statutory body charged with promoting and protecting human rights in Berm...
DATE: Jun 22, 2019
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Sam Strangeways
The Government has shown a “flagrant disregard” for children by failing to pay for them to have independent legal representation, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.
Court of Appeal judge Dame Elizabeth Gloster said in a written judgment that there ...
DATE: Jun 22, 2019
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Somers Day was observed for nearly two decades before Parliament created the two-day Cup Match holiday in 1947.
The first known public commemoration of Sir George Somers’s 1609 landing of the Sea Venture occurred in 1929.
On July 28, 1931, Somers Day...
DATE: Jun 20, 2019
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Meredith Ebbin
Youth activist and soon-to-be law graduate Eron Hill was sent abroad as part of a controversial government programme for vulnerable children — and credits it with turning his life around.
Mr Hill told The Royal Gazette he was compelled to share his s...
DATE: Jun 13, 2019
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Almost 20 buses were cancelled this afternoon, according to a Government alert.
A total of 19 buses scheduled to be released between 4.11pm and 10.20pm have been cancelled.
Affected routes include Routes 8, 9, 7, 11, 10, and 4.
The alert was released...
DATE: Jun 07, 2019
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The Attorney-General asked The Royal Gazette yesterday to stop inquiring about a government programme that sends vulnerable children overseas and about child-abuse allegations at some of the schools used.
The youngsters go to institutions abroad as p...
DATE: Jun 06, 2019
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Bermuda’s register of beneficial company ownership cannot be released under the island’s public access to information law, according to a decision due to come out today.
Gitanjali Gutierrez, the information commissioner, said the Bermuda Monetary Aut...
DATE: Jun 05, 2019
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