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Joint provisional liquidators have interviewed all the directors of the operating company of the failed Caroline Bay development and are combing through company records as they seek to recoup some of the taxpayers’ money paid out on a $165 million de...
DATE: Jul 25, 2020
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A 66-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a historical sex assault, police said today.
A police spokesman said that the investigation continued and that no further information would be released at present.
DATE: Jul 25, 2020
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Tropical Storm Gonzalo is not a threat to Bermuda, the Bermuda Weather Service said today.
Forecasters predicted the closest approach to the island inside three days would be 1431 miles to the south at 9am tomorrow.
But they warned that the system co...
DATE: Jul 25, 2020
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One positive coronavirus test was among 633 tests results that came back to the health ministry today.
The new case came in on Friday’s Delta flight from the US and was a resident without a pre-departure test.
A spokeswoman for the health ministry sa...
DATE: Jul 25, 2020
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Health
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News Staff
A woman charged with firearms related offences will go to the Supreme Court for trial, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
The case was dismissed by the Supreme Court last October, but the Court of Appeal overturned the decision in a judgment yesterday.
T...
DATE: Jul 24, 2020
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Special emergency payments to out-of-work residents are expected to be extended for an extra two weeks, it was revealed last night.
Jason Hayward, the labour minister, said almost 4,000 clients would get their last payment on July 31. But he added: “...
DATE: Jul 24, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Legal changes are needed to standardise the appointment of future education commissioners, the shadow education minister said yesterday.
Cole Simons added that the Court of Appeal ruling in the case of veteran teacher and education official Gina Tuck...
DATE: Jul 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Fifteen pieces of legislation will be up for debate in the House of Assembly today as Members of Parliament meet for the last time before the summer break.
A Bill to raise the debt ceiling is among the items to be debated. If passed, the amendment to...
DATE: Jul 24, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
Prosecutors have lodged an appeal to seek a longer prison sentence for a sex offender.
Chez Rogers, 20, was jailed on July 15 after he admitted he had unlawful carnal knowledge of a 13-year-old girl and lured her. The offences took place between Augu...
DATE: Jul 24, 2020
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Most of the 62 Portuguese nationals who quit the island in a special repatriation flight this week left because they had lost their jobs — and many had “left for good”, the travel agent who arranged the flight said yesterday.
Luisa Da Ponte, of Trip ...
DATE: Jul 24, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell