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A 47-year-old man caught riding a motorbike while more than double the drink-driving limit was banned yesterday for 18 months.
Calvin Trott, from Smith’s, was also fined $1,200 at Magistrates’ Court.
Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo heard that Trott was st...
DATE: Feb 08, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
MS Amlin has been announced as a major sponsor of the ITU World Triathlon Bermuda.
The reinsurance firm said the move was a natural step as parent company MS&AD is based in Tokyo, where the Olympics will be held in 2020.
During the Bermuda event in A...
DATE: Feb 08, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The battle for same-sex marriage could end up in Europe’s highest courts, lawyer Mark Pettingill said last night.
Mr Pettingill said that Royal Assent for a law designed to replace same-sex marriage with domestic partnerships meant that any further l...
DATE: Feb 08, 2018
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Same-Sex Marriage
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A golf club that removed the colour bar in the sport has been honoured by the Governor.
John Rankin presented the Ocean View Golf Club with the memoirs of former governor Sir Julian Gascoigne, who presented the club with the Governor’s Cup in 1964 to...
DATE: Feb 08, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A cruise ship diverted to Bermuda yesterday to drop off a sick passenger.
A Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre spokesman said the agent for Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas told them on Tuesday evening that the ship would change course for Bermu...
DATE: Feb 08, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A new set of traffic lights in Paget will be up and running on Friday.
The lights have been installed near the Railway Trail crossing at the Harmony Club on South Road.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Public Works said: “The aim of the new lights i...
DATE: Feb 07, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A have-a-go crew of sailors is to help tackle Bermuda’s build-up of derelict boats one wreck at a time.
The news came as the Government delivered an ultimatum yesterday to the owners of 17 abandoned boats scattered around the island.
Officials warned...
DATE: Feb 07, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police officers who seized a terrified three-year-old boy from his parents acted outside the law, the Supreme Court has ruled.
Assistant Justice David Kessaram said that the Department of Child and Family Services and Family Court had been wrong to b...
DATE: Feb 07, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Michael Dunkley, the former premier, questioned last night if a parliamentary committee established to inquire into a clash between protesters and police outside the House of Assembly had been properly set up.
The Parliamentary Joint Select Committee...
DATE: Feb 07, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A convicted drugs mule who smuggled fentanyl into Bermuda broke down in tears yesterday as she recounted how doctors told her she could have died after the rupture of one of the drug pellets she had swallowed.
Canadian Jacqueline Robinson said that h...
DATE: Feb 07, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Court
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