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Specialist investigators will be recruited to the Bermuda Police Service from overseas after training of island officers was unable to keep up with demand for the expertise.
Commissioner of Police Darrin Simons explained that detectives were overwhel...
DATE: Dec 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Tributes have been paid to a former head of the Bermuda Entertainment Union, who has died at the age of 88.
Lloyd Simmons was president of the union – formerly known as the Bermuda Federation of Musicians and Variety Artists – during “a challenging p...
DATE: Dec 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A Southampton ferry stop has reopened again.
The Rockaway ferry stop today was closed at about 10am today, opening again around 5.20pm once problems had been solved.
The stop was closed in mid-September for the same problem – about two months after ...
DATE: Dec 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A former commanding officer of the Royal Bermuda Regiment who pleaded guilty to a charge of official corruption told a judge he was not aware he was committing a crime at the time of the offence.
David Curley also said that he was now unable to get a...
DATE: Dec 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A senior pedestrian died after he was hit by a minibus in Hamilton last week, police said. Malston Iris became the ninth road fatality this year.
A Bermuda Police Service spokesman said the 71-year-old was seriously injured when a minibus hit him on...
DATE: Dec 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An MP campaigning to stop a medical waste incinerator in her constituency appeared to backtrack this week on earlier comments about when she first heard of the controversial facility.
Tinée Furbert, a minister and the government MP for St George’s So...
DATE: Dec 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s own Tim Terceira, who started out as a beach boy at the Lantana cottage colony, has been declared Hotelier of the Year in Canada’s Hotelier magazine.
The newly-retired general manager of the St Regis Hotel in Toronto, Mr Terceira told the p...
DATE: Dec 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Nurses who developed a procedure to treat and prevent pressure wounds in patients at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital will see their work published in a British journal on geriatric medicine.
The method was shared already with hundreds of people...
DATE: Dec 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The final sitting of the House of Assembly for 2022 promises to be a busy session for legislators - with items up for debate today including landmark minimum wage legislation
DATE: Dec 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Cole Simons has insisted that he does not feel threatened by the deputy leader of One Bermuda Alliance, Jarion Richardson, but admits he may have “deficiencies” as head of the party.
Asked about comments from Mr Richardson that he could do some thing...
DATE: Dec 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly