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The appointment of one of the men behind a controversial quad bike business to a conservation body is not a conflict of interest, a minister said yesterday.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch was speaking as a new coalition opposed to the ATV tour plan ...
DATE: Apr 06, 2018
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Two people were yesterday fined and banned from the road for a year for refusal to take a police breath test and five others faced penalties for speeding or careless driving.
Nancy Mota, 35, from St George’s, was banned from driving for a year and f...
DATE: Apr 06, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A Visitor Services Centre opened in Dockyard today.
The facility next to the ferry point, managed by the Bermuda Tourism Authority, provides kiosks to help tourists find things to do in Bermuda.
It offers Bermuda brand products, with staff on hand to...
DATE: Apr 06, 2018
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Jonathan Smith, Vincent Hollinsid, and Orin Simmons have been appointed as the Bermuda Government’s new Public Service Negotiating Team.
The group, who replace Gary Phillips, Martin Law and John Harvey, will continue ongoing negotiations with the Pri...
DATE: Apr 06, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The Department of Public Prosecutions is to launch an appeal against a court decision to dismiss a careless driving charge against lawyer Charles Richardson.
The news sparked anger from Mr Richardson.
He wrote on his Instagram page on Tuesday: “I am...
DATE: Apr 05, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A woman who admitted importing more than $70,000 of cannabis to Bermuda was warned yesterday that she could face prison.
Magistrates’ Court heard that Natasha York, 41, of Slip Point Lane, St George’s, returned with her two young daughters from Toron...
DATE: Apr 05, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A motorist was banned from driving all vehicles for 12 months yesterday after he admitted failing to give a breath sample to police.
Trevor Forth, 48, of Ramgoat Hill, Smith’s, also got an $800 fine from Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo.
Prosecutor Yanique...
DATE: Apr 05, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A man was fined almost $1,000 for traffic offences yesterday.
T’Shun Basden, 24, admitted in Magistrates’ Court to two speeding offences and driving an unlicensed motorcycle.
Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo fined him $400 for speeding at 70km/h in Septemb...
DATE: Apr 05, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Hundreds of people attended a commemoration of the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr yesterday to mark the 50th anniversary of the peace activist’s murder.
Glenn Fubler, who helped organise the tribute at City Hall, said it was an occasion t...
DATE: Apr 05, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Franco-German TV crew visited Bermuda on a mission to capture the spirit of the residents.
Kristian Kaehler, producer for a series on British islands, said the project was about revealing “the real people”.
Mr Kaehler said: “It’s about really comi...
DATE: Apr 05, 2018
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