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Bermuda’s first march to celebrate gay pride is to be held this summer.
LGBTQ people and same-sex marriage campaigners said the Bermuda Pride event would help to reinforce that gay people are part of island society.
A spokesman for OutBermuda, the ma...
DATE: Jun 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Same-Sex Marriage
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez will decide whether the Department of Internal Audit was right to keep secret the findings of its inquiry into the head of the island’s child protection agency.
Alfred Maybury, director of the Department o...
DATE: Jun 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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The fight over the legal representation of the patients of Ewart Brown returned to the Court of Appeal yesterday.
Mark Pettingill, who represents patients whose medical records were seized by police, called on the court to quash a ruling that he and ...
DATE: Jun 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A former head of communications at the Bermuda Business Development Agency has been appointed to a top job at the Bermuda Tourism Authority.
Rosemary Jones is the BTA’s new director of corporate communications and strategy.
She said: “It’s a real hon...
DATE: Jun 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Warwick Academy pupils cleaned up of a beach to mark World Ocean Day.
Year 10 Global Citizenship groups from the school visited Southlands Beach as part of their Community Action Project on Friday. They worked with Keep Bermuda Beautiful.
The project...
DATE: Jun 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A grandmother restaurant cook relived her terror after a man with what appeared to be a handgun charged at her and demanded cash.
The woman said: “I thought he was joking — like it was somebody just playing games — but then he put the gun up.
“He had...
DATE: Jun 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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A man has denied two counts of drug possession.
Taureem O’Connor, 27, from Hamilton Parish, pleaded not guilty to having 14.19 grams of cannabis resin and 27.43 grams of cannabis on December 28 last year.
Magistrates’ Court heard that the alleged ...
DATE: Jun 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Court
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A vulnerable teenager “dumped” overseas by the island’s child protection agency claimed yesterday that social workers tricked him into going and then “abandoned” him for years.
The youth, whose mother died when he was a child, said in an account to T...
DATE: Jun 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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A dispute between Belco and the Corporation of Hamilton over who should pay to move power lines underground came before the Court of Appeal.
The corporation argued that the energy firm had to cover the $26,000 cost to move Union Street power undergro...
DATE: Jun 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Devonshire residents will have a chance to share their safety concerns during a police meet and greet this week.
Constable Kyle Outerbridge, the Parish Constable for Devonshire, will conduct a community outreach clinic for area residents from 11.15...
DATE: Jun 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan