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The House of Assembly was updated yesterday morning on key meetings to keep the island off the European Union’s list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions.
Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, briefed MPs on meetings held in London and Brussels.
Mr...
DATE: Dec 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Bill designed to strengthen Bermuda’s human rights laws and promote equality was yesterday tabled in the House of Assembly by the One Bermuda Alliance.
The proposed legislation would create an Equality Council at the Human Rights Commission which ...
DATE: Dec 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
One more case of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been isolated, health officials said last night.
The infection was found in a person who arrived on the island from overseas. There have now been two confirmed Omicron cases on the islan...
DATE: Dec 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Roadside breath test checkpoints will be set up across four parishes for a week over the Christmas period.
A Government notice warned that road blocks would be operated by police every day from December 20 to Boxing Day.
The checkpoints will all be ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Roadside breath-test checkpoints set up without warning have been ruled out by the transport minister.
Lawrence Scott said he did not recall a conversation at a meeting with former Commissioner of Police Steven Corbishley about the possibility of ab...
DATE: Dec 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Road users on Harbour Road will face two sets of lane closures when repairs start on a second area of wall later this month.
The news came as the Ministry of Public Works announced that work on the road between Lover’s Lane and Highwood Lane in Paget...
DATE: Dec 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A police investigation has been launched into an alleged sexual assault by an overseas rugby player, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
A source said the player was alleged to have groped another man in a Hamilton bar.
A date for the alleged offence was n...
DATE: Dec 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Phone companies topped the list for customer complaints in the latest report by the telecommunications and energy watchdog.
Digicel had the highest number of complaints about billing – the biggest grievance category reported to the Regulatory Authori...
DATE: Dec 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A report into alleged historic land grabs and a revised Budget statement will dominate the House of Assembly’s final session of the year today.
It is understood that the Commission of Inquiry, which held its last hearings in May, completed the report...
DATE: Dec 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
A One Bermuda Alliance claim that the Government has misrepresented the inflation rate yesterday sparked a war of words.
Cole Simons, the Opposition leader, said that the figures produced by the Cabinet Office “just don’t add up”.
But Wayne Furbert, ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan