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A community worker will deliver some Christmas spirit at a giveaway for the disadvantaged this weekend.
Gina Spence, of Gina Spence Productions, said the event, the fourth of its kind, would be held at a new location at Warwick post office.
Ms Spence...
DATE: Dec 11, 2019
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The national security minister denied nepotism after he appointed his mother to a government board.
Wayne Caines said the selection of Shurnett Caines for the Treatment of Offenders Board was based on merit.
He added that the appointment was made bec...
DATE: Dec 11, 2019
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Bermuda has two residential homes for children in care and both need a string of improvements, people with inside knowledge have said.
The sources said the buildings, the staff and the care provided all needed to be upgraded.
The Royal Gazette spoke ...
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A former police officer was jailed for 2½ years yesterday for dumping more than 60 traffic tickets for his own profit.
Pc Kyle Wheatley, 34, resigned from the Bermuda Police Service on Monday after he pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to conspiracy...
DATE: Dec 11, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A civil case brought by a former primary school principal against the Public Service Commission and the Board of Education after she was overlooked for the Commissioner of Education post ended yesterday.
Gina Tucker, who has also worked in several ...
DATE: Dec 11, 2019
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A sex offender released just months ago was back behind bars yesterday after it was alleged he breached a supervision order.
Junius Caines appeared in the Supreme Court, where it was claimed he had broken his curfew, failed a urine test for drugs and...
DATE: Dec 11, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Prosecutors asked for a woman who admitted the theft of more than $110,000 from her employers to be jailed for a year.
Deidre Woolgar, 46, pleaded guilty in June to charges of theft and false accounting after her employers found she failed to deposit...
DATE: Dec 11, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A teenage boy sent to two overseas schools by the Department of Child and Family Services came back with no educational qualifications and ill-equipped for adult life, a good Samaritan who looked after his welfare said.
The woman added she had known ...
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Bermudian children have been sent to overseas treatment centres for decades — but it has only come to wider public attention in recent years.
As far back as at least 1984 — and until 2017 — boys from Bermuda were sent to the embattled Glen Mills Scho...
DATE: Dec 11, 2019
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Fiona McWhirter
A march designed to encourage men to become role models for schoolchildren has the backing of education authorities, the Government said today.
A spokeswoman for the Government said: “The Department of Education has confirmed that Mr Crockwell did re...
DATE: Dec 11, 2019
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