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The island’s 48 new Royal Bermuda Regiment recruits got a visit on Monday from Rena Lalgie, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
Ms Lalgie toured Warwick Camp with Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Beasley, the Commanding Officer, and spoke with some of th...
DATE: Feb 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Commissioner of Police Stephen Corbishley has referred a video showing a motorcyclist allowing a child passenger to take the handlebars while riding on a public road to the roads policing unit.
The footage appeared on the Facebook group Bad Driving ...
DATE: Feb 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A firearm was found just days after gunshots were reported in an eastern parish, The Royal Gazette has confirmed.
The weapon is believed to have been found in a garden in the Harlem Heights area of Hamilton Parish earlier today. The find was first re...
DATE: Feb 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Two women sustained minor injuries after falling from a motorcycle yesterday morning when another rider snatched a chain off the driver’s neck.
A police spokesman said the robbery occurred at 9.30am on Ord Road, Paget, near the junction with Cherry H...
DATE: Feb 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A terminally ill woman who brought comfort to others with cancer has died after a long illness.
Kevina Santucci, a mother of one, was 34.
Ms Santucci found out in 2014 at age 28 that she had spindle cell rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare cancer.
The community...
DATE: Feb 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
A man who admitted accepting financial assistance from the Government while he was working for five months was yesterday ordered to pay more than $11,000 in restitution.
David McCann, 37, was also fined $1,000 when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court. ...
DATE: Feb 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Government will not comment on a pilot convicted of driving a public ferry into a floating dock while impaired until an investigation has been completed.
A Ministry of Transport spokeswoman said inquiries surrounding Ascot Lightbourne and his pilotin...
DATE: Feb 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, has rejected calls to abolish “coerced” collective worship in schools.
Mr Rabain said he supported legislation which dictates that schools “shall begin with collective worship on the part of all pupils in at...
DATE: Feb 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Clarence Maxwell
A noted academic is to be honoured at a special dinner celebrating Black History Month next week.
Clarence Maxwell, an assistant professor of History at Millersville University in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, will be guest of honour at t...
DATE: Feb 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A police officer fired after he was accused of striking a teenage suspect with a baton and turning off his body camera has lost a legal battle to be reinstated.
The Public Service Commission found last year that Oswin Pereira should not have been dis...
DATE: Feb 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes