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David Burt, the Premier, is in Europe for meetings in London, Paris and Brussels.
In a statement issued from London, Mr Burt stated tonight: “Bermuda has a recognised leadership position in transparency and compliance and our delegation will reinfor...
DATE: Oct 08, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
National security minister Wayne Caines has paid recognition to graduates from the treatment and aftercare programme at the Right Living House.
Mr Caines was at a ceremony with two graduates, their families and the Commissioner of Corrections, Lieute...
DATE: Oct 08, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The man leading a team of police officers assisting in the British Virgin Islands following the devastation of Hurricane Irma described it as a “life-changing experience”.
Sergeant Andrew Smalling and his five colleagues arrived back in Bermuda tonig...
DATE: Oct 08, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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Bermudian hotel worker Sidney Mello was hailed a hero after he dived into a dangerous rip tide to rescue a drowning woman.
Mr Mello, a beach supervisor, swam 50 metres to pull the guest to safety and he carried her back to shore above his head as wav...
DATE: Oct 07, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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MPs clashed in a race row in the House of Assembly yesterday.
The controversy broke out after One Bermuda Alliance MP Trevor Moniz, the Shadow Attorney-General, clashed with Diallo Rabain, education minister for the ruling Progressive Labour Party. ...
DATE: Oct 07, 2017
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Other
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Bermudian singer Ben Lusher, of the thriving New York band Thirdstory, has shot to new prominence sharing the stage with the artist Chance the Rapper.
The trio, which joined forces in 2014, backed Chance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where t...
DATE: Oct 07, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A woman jailed for importing cannabis has had sentence reduced by eight months — but the court refused a request to increase the sentence of a second woman for drugs offences.
Valisa Holder appealed against a 2½-year sentence imposed in Magistrates’ ...
DATE: Oct 07, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Civil Service bureaucrats have made an about-turn over the “firing” of the island’s Commissioner of Education.
Now Freddie Evans, who was told on Monday he was dumped from the job, could be in for a payout in damages from the Government.
A letter fro...
DATE: Oct 07, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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Just weeks before he was battered to death by his partner, Edmund John Flood told a friend: “I might not be alive much longer.”
The chilling comment in September last year came only a day before Keivon Scott viciously attacked Mr Flood and put him in...
DATE: Oct 06, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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A three-year-old trash truck superfan got a surprise visit from Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works.
Colonel Burch visited the home of Stephen Smith — and gave him his own miniature version of a refuse vehicle.
The minister s...
DATE: Oct 06, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes