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MPs clashed in the House of Assembly over the hiring of a defence lawyer to run the Government’s Legal Aid office.
Opposition backbencher Trevor Moniz questioned whether Charles Richardson — who he described as one of the island’s “leading and very g...
DATE: Mar 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Talks about the future of Bermuda’s health system went ahead this week despite the ongoing efforts to protect the island from Covid-19.
Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said that a meeting at KPMG would have been rescheduled if the risk level was ...
DATE: Mar 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A total of three cruise lines have suspended visits to Bermuda in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was revealed tonight.
The Ministry of Tourism and Transport said that Norwegian Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean, and Ponant Cruises for the
DATE: Mar 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A town hall meeting will take place today to discuss new immigration legislation tabled in the House of Assembly.
People are invited to CedarBridge Academy for the meeting about amendments to the Bermuda Immigration and Protection Act.
National secur...
DATE: Mar 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The final appeal over same-sex marriage got a day in court for December at the Privy Council in London.
The December 7 and 8 hearings, revealed yesterday, will settle the issue after years of dispute in Bermuda’s courts and Parliament.
The ruling by ...
DATE: Mar 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Government has cut funding for a controversial programme which sends vulnerable Bermudian children to overseas institutions.
The Department of Child and Family Services will get almost $1.6 million to spend on its psychoeducational programme in t...
DATE: Mar 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Temperature checks could soon be introduced at all of the island’s ports in efforts to protect against a potential killer strain of coronavirus, the Minister of Health said yesterday.
Kim Wilson told the House of Assembly that officials were due to m...
DATE: Mar 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Bermuda Hospitals Board will not appeal a judge’s decision to award $1.9 million in damages for medical negligence to a man whose wife died after her cancerous tumour was missed by an emergency room doctor.
However, the publicly funded quango was...
DATE: Mar 12, 2020
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Other
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Police have named a man who was found dead in a Sandys home on Friday.
Allan Power, 66, was pronounced dead at the scene by an on-call physician.
A police spokesman said yesterday that foul play was not suspected.
DATE: Mar 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A woman driver who struck an off-duty police officer and drove off was fined $1,300 and banned from the roads for three months after a Magistrates’ Court trial.
Sade Burch, 34, was found guilty on Tuesday of driving without due care and attention and...
DATE: Mar 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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