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A 60-year-old man was yesterday charged with a serious sex assault almost 40 years ago.
The man, from Sandys, was accused in Magistrates’ Court of an alleged rape of a woman on June 5, 1983.
The defendant and the alleged victim cannot be identified f...
DATE: Dec 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Film-makers and other artists were yesterday warned to ask for permission before they set up at City of Hamilton-owned premises.
Dwayne Caines, the City’s chief operating officer, said: “We promote and endorse creative expression in Bermuda. We belie...
DATE: Dec 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A 74-year-old driver charged with causing grievious bodily harm to a magistrate was yesterday accused of trying to shift the blame on to the alleged victim.
Nicole Smith, for the Crown, told Magistrates’ Court that Brian Alkon failed to pay attentio...
DATE: Dec 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Hundreds of seniors and disadvantaged families have benefited from bundles of Christmas groceries from the Salvation Army.
A senior member of the event’s coordination team said that more than 300 seniors visited the Botanical Gardens to collect holid...
DATE: Dec 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Opposition today attacked the Government for a failure to deal with legislation in the Senate.
Ben Smith, the One Bermuda Alliance senate leader, said the Progressive Labour Party delay in dealing with eleven Bills was “bizarre”.
He added that he...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A charity that helps a traditional Christmas Day event run well has asked party goers to give it a miss this year to help limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Anne Hyde, the Keep Bermuda Beautiful executive director, warned hurricane damage to the p...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Clean air campaigners today appealed to power firm Belco to help form a community advisory committee to foster better relations between the power plant and its neighbours.
The Bermuda Clean Air Coalition, whose members include local residents, busine...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Police officers have caught ten people in breach of the 11pm curfew since Friday - with one offender stopped twice.
A police spokesman said today that curfew checks were carried out at several locations over the weekend to enforce the measures, intro...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermudians living in London and the south-east of England can still travel home over the holiday season, despite new lockdown laws in the UK.
A Government spokeswoman today appealed to Bermudians in the UK to stick to the UK restrictions.
But she add...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
More than 300 properties were without power this afternoon after a utility pole fault.
A spokesman for power firm Belco said engineers had been sent to fix the problem in Southampton.
Belco said in a tweet: “We're aware of an outage currently affecti...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter