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Gina Spence Productions: Christmas Community Festival.(Photographs by Akil Simmons)
DATE: Dec 15, 2018
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The Premier said yesterday that the Government paid $14,000 for legal advice before it decided to take its battle to ban same-sex marriage to the Privy Council in London.
David Burt told the House of Assembly the Government had spent £11,250 — about ...
DATE: Dec 15, 2018
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Same-Sex Marriage
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A sex offenders register will be set up in Bermuda after legislation was passed in the House of Assembly last night.
Opposition MPs welcomed the legal change but raised concerns about how few of the recommendations from a Joint Select Committee repo...
DATE: Dec 15, 2018
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Bermudian actress Julia Frith is about to fulfil a lifelong dream and take centre stage in London’s West End.
Ms Frith, 23, will join the main cast of The Comedy About a Bank Robbery next Tuesday after months of work with the touring production.
She ...
DATE: Dec 15, 2018
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Government was accused of failing to carry out a proper consultation yesterday after a House of Assembly debate on a controversial Bill opposed by children’s rights campaigners was postponed.
Craig Cannonier, the Opposition leader, said he was “e...
DATE: Dec 15, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Auditor-General issued a qualified audit opinion to the Government for 2017-18 after she ruled there was insufficient evidence for $10.3 million of capital development expenditure.
Heather Thomas’s decision was revealed as Curtis Dickinson, the f...
DATE: Dec 15, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Three people have been suspended from their jobs while allegations of abuse by Child and Family Services staff are investigated, the Premier said yesterday.
Mr Burt told the House of Assembly that the investigations were at “various stages” and the r...
DATE: Dec 15, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Children at a nursery got in the Christmas spirit early yesterday with a “Ring in the Gifts” event.
Youngsters at the Happy Moments Nursery and Preschool enjoyed tree decorating, singing and exchanged presents.
The nursery , attached to the Radnor Ro...
DATE: Dec 15, 2018
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News Staff
The departure of a health watchdog’s chief executive should raise red flags, the shadow health minister said yesterday.
Patricia Gordon-Pamplin said that the “removal” of Tawanna Wedderburn from the Bermuda Health Council was done “with no proper ex...
DATE: Dec 15, 2018
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Health
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The Auditor-General said today there were two reasons why her audit opinion to the Government for its 2017-18 accounts was qualified.
Heather Thomas explained there was insufficient evidence for $10.3 million of capital development and a “critical” v...
DATE: Dec 15, 2018
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
