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The wife of one of the contractors alleged to have received massive pay-outs from Bermuda Housing Corporations (BHC) is a close friend of Premier Jennifer Smith with ties to Progressive Labour Party (PLP), The Royal Gazette has learned.
A report in t...
DATE: Mar 13, 2002
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The lawyer acting for troubled eco-resort Daniel's Head yesterday said rumours that the village had already closed down and was up for sale were not true - and a number of options were still being considered.
Wendell Hollis admitted some uncertainty ...
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Advocates and politicians have slammed Premier Jennifer Smith's silence over the fate of Bermuda-born Tracy Housel after she failed to publicly respond to appeals to plead for his life.
Anti-death penalty campaigners The Louisiana Crisis Assistance C...
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United Bermuda Party Senator and former golf professional Kim Swan has filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission claiming discrimination by the Board of Trustees of Government Golf Courses.
Sen. Swan lodged the complaint after being ousted f...
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Opposition Sen. Kim Swan has urged Government to address the people of St. George's on how the old town is to be protected once the Police station is closed and moved to St. David's.
He said the people of the East End were grateful to have an opportu...
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A report leaked to The Royal Gazette shows Government could face an environmental nightmare as it strives to clean up the former US baselands of toxic waste.
On Friday, Government announced a deal which absolved the US of paying for the clean up of p...
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Trash collectors staged a sit-in yesterday which disrupted pick-ups in the east of the Island in protest at floodings and poor conditions in their Marsh Folly headquarters in Pembroke.
The workers refused to leave the depot yesterday morning after a ...
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A gardener whose was paid over $5,500 a week by Bermuda Housing Corporation told The Royal Gazette yesterday he was "shocked" to see his name at the centre of controversy over massive pay-outs last week.
Although Caven Richardson was paid nearly $70,...
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The failure of two high profile drugs prosecutions and Dame Lois Browne Evans' attack last week on Canadian lawyers who used to work as Crown counsel has put the spotlight on the Director of Public Prosecution's (DPP) office recently.
Statistics comp...
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Bermuda-born murderer Tracy Lee Housel was executed last night by Georgia prison authorities, ending 16 years on death row.
In a final statement, Housel, 43, said he was "sorry from the very centre of my heart."
To his friends and family he said: "Ta...
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