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Taxpayers will continue to “pick up the slack” if workers do not get a living wage, a public forum heard this week.
Martha Dismont, the executive director of Family Centre, said financial assistance for food and housing for struggling Bermudians was ...
DATE: Oct 20, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Four drivers were arrested on suspicion of impaired driving last night.
Three of them were picked up at roadside sobriety checkpoints in Devonshire, Pembroke and Paget.
The fourth was arrested after a crash in North Shore Road, Smith’s.
In addition, ...
DATE: Oct 20, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A woman was arrested on suspicion of impaired driving after a crash on North Shore Road, Smith’s, last night.
The 33-year-old Pembroke woman was taken by ambulance to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after her car collided with another car near Jenn...
DATE: Oct 20, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Bermuda Government has been required to borrow trash trucks from the City of Hamilton because of its own shortages.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said his public works ministry had faced difficulties collecting garbage all year and would probabl...
DATE: Oct 19, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The Bermuda Police Service have confirmed the hunt is still on for the person who fatally shot Colford Ferguson.
Khyri Smith-Williams, 27, was found guilty of premeditated murder and the use of a firearm to commit an indictable offence in the 2011 k...
DATE: Oct 19, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Official Gazette will be posted on the Government’s website from November 1.
All government and legal notices, as well as Bermuda regulations, will appear on a new official gazette page on the government website.
Lovitta Foggo, the Minister for t...
DATE: Oct 19, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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Nearly one quarter of the Bermuda population will be aged 65 or older within the next ten years, a report said yesterday.
Government statisticians predict the proportion of seniors will climb from 16.9 per cent in 2016 to 24.9 per cent in 2026. It wo...
DATE: Oct 19, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An online campaign to cover urgent medical tests for a sick teen was dealt a crushing blow after a pledge worth more than $9,000 from its top contributor was abruptly withdrawn.
But last night, the push to help 14-year-old Kandice Young was almost on...
DATE: Oct 19, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda deserves full disclosure on the details of the Jetgate scandal, a Progressive Labour Party backbencher said.
Rolfe Commissiong said the One Bermuda Alliance must come clean over the scandal that led to the resignation of Craig Cannonier as p...
DATE: Oct 19, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Former health minister Jeanne Atherden has accused David Burt and Kim Wilson of lying to justify to taxpayers a $1.2 million public purse payout to Ewart Brown.
The Opposition backbencher told The Royal Gazette that Mr Burt, the Premier and Minister ...
DATE: Oct 19, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways