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A man has been arrested and a second man is being hunted by police after a weekend shooting.
Chief Inspector Peter Stableford said a man had been arrested in connection with the incident on Saturday.
He added a second man, Daquan "Smoky" Williams, wa...
DATE: Aug 31, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A woman accused of the storage of two guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition was cleared yesterday.
Tonae Perinchief-Leader, 31, was charged with handling a revolver, a shotgun and 485 rounds of mixed ammunition found in two suitcases at her famil...
DATE: Aug 31, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Controversial rules on union decertification will not be amended – despite increased pressure from trade unionists, ministers insisted yesterday.
Walter Roban, the Acting Premier, and Jason Hayward, the labour minister Jason Hayward – supported by se...
DATE: Aug 31, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Plans to introduce fees for single-use plastics in the run-up to an outright ban could be scrapped, a policy paper has warned.
The paper said that the Government had earlier pledged to introduce a charge for single-use plastics but the 2020 deadline ...
DATE: Aug 31, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Workers who took part in industrial action yesterday backed more demonstrations against a controversial piece of labour legislation.
Stephen Page, who works for the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, said: “I’m not a part of the union – but I’m a par...
DATE: Aug 31, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Bus and ferry services ground to a halt yesterday after a strike over procedures for union decertification votes.
A Government spokeswoman said Bermuda Industrial Union workers in several departments downed tools.
She added that landscaping work at ...
DATE: Aug 31, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A senior official at a trade union is to sue after he claimed he was fired against its rules.
George Scott, an executive officer at the Bermuda Industrial Union for 18 years, launched the action through law firm Wakefield Quin.
Mr Scott said earlier ...
DATE: Aug 31, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Tropical Storm Kate is forecast to pass well east of the island as the 2021 hurricane season heats up.
TS Kate, named on Sunday, was about 1,063 miles east-southeast of Bermuda and moving north at 5mph at 6am today.
The storm was not considered a thr...
DATE: Aug 31, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Proposals for speed cameras and other hi-tech surveillance equipment were still up in the air after the Government failed to say if it backed police calls for more technology to fight crime.
Commissioner of Police Stephen Corbishley said two months a...
DATE: Aug 31, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A taxi driver was banned from the roads until further notice yesterday after he admitted a refusal to take a breath test.
Magistrates’ Court heard that an off-duty police officer saw a grey taxi swerving on Trimingham Road in Paget.
The officer follo...
DATE: Aug 31, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson