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The family of former commissioner of police Jean-Jacques Lemay has thanked Bermuda for its support after he was killed in a road accident in Canada earlier this month.
Marc Morabito, a friend of the family, said “The family is grateful for the messag...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Former government minister Jeff Baron has hit the road on a Harley Davidson in the US to raise cash for charity.
Mr Baron’s epic motorbike trip through Texas, Arizona and on to the California coast will cover more than 1,350 miles to support children...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Pembroke man caught with a small quantity of cannabis and scales was yesterday fined $1,800.
Michael Clamens was stopped on Gibbs Hill in Southampton on May 11 after police spotted him driving erratically.
Officers arrested the 40-year-old on sus...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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A premature baby girl born in Bermuda on Christmas Day is expected to be flown off the island this morning for emergency medical treatment abroad.
Kee-Ijah Bailey and her mother, Elisha Joell, will be taken to the Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto by air...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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The battle against invasive lionfish is set to heat up again next month in the fourth annual Winter Lionfish Derby.
Organiser Corey Eddy, who published a PhD on lionfish in Bermuda, said he had high hopes for the monthlong event.
Mr Eddy said: “I sta...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Census results for 2016 are to be examined by Cabinet in the new year.
The census, which gathered a range of statistics on the island’s population, was completed between May 2016 and last March.
Government said the survey had a 95 per cent response r...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Government has tightened the law to ensure the real ownership of companies registered in Bermuda stays secret.
The change was backed by MPs a week before David Burt, the Premier and Minister of Finance, said that Bermuda was “an open, transparent...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A fight in which a woman threw gasoline over another woman and tried to set her ablaze has led Southampton Rangers Club to organise an anti-violence forum.
Jason Wade, president of the club, said the Christmas Eve attack was “a very unfortunate incid...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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Jonathan Bell
Defence lawyer Charles Richardson has denied charges of careless driving and refusing to provide police officers with a breath sample.
Mr Richardson told Magistrates’ Court yesterday he was being “harassed because of who I am” as he pleaded not guil...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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American country music star and foster care campaigner Jimmy Wayne called yesterday for more Bermuda families to look after children in need of a home.
Mr Wayne, who spent eight years in the US care system, said that fostering children offered them a...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes