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The Government has been ordered to pay costs to the couple who won the right for gay people to marry in Bermuda.
Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons ruled that all of Winston Godwin and Greg DeRoche’s legal costs should be paid in relation to their cla...
DATE: Sep 28, 2017
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Tighter regulations for residential care homes are to be brought before MPs, according to Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health.
The legislation is “top of my priority list”, Ms Wilson said, to “enhance the regulatory framework so that homes can succeed...
DATE: Sep 28, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Cabinet minister Kim Wilson is representing same-sex marriage opponents in their bid to overturn a landmark ruling which allowed gay couples to marry in Bermuda.
Ms Wilson, the full-time Minister of Health, is the attorney of record for a group which...
DATE: Sep 28, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Cabinet salary bill is now about $150,000 more than under the previous government, One Bermuda Alliance senator Nick Kempe told the Upper House yesterday.
Corey Butterfield, who was hired as a consultant for the OBA following the party’s win in 2...
DATE: Sep 28, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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An investigation has been launched after drugs were found at Mount Saint Agnes Academy last week.
Police said that a small quantity of a “plant material” was seized from an unattended auxiliary cycle located on school property last Friday.
“The dru...
DATE: Sep 28, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Moderate to strong winds and a chance of thunder are forecast through tomorrow morning as Tropical Storm Maria passes to Bermuda’s distant north.
The Bermuda Weather Service still classed the system as a potential threat at 6pm but Hurricane Lee’s c...
DATE: Sep 28, 2017
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Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Lawyer Eugene Johnston will give the latest presentation for ThinkFest 2017.
Mr Johnston’s talk, titled “Nguvu — the bedroom, the classroom and the ballot box”, will take place on Sunday, October 8, at the Bermuda High School assembly hall, from 5pm....
DATE: Sep 28, 2017
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Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Bermuda’s unique role in ocean studies and tracking climate change was highlighted recently on board the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences research vessel Atlantic Explorer.
The crucial work by BIOS was featured this summer in a PBS broadcast Chang...
DATE: Sep 27, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Vina Outerbridge, a popular waitress and winner of Bermuda’s top hospitality award, has been remembered by MPs as a “no-nonsense woman who took pride in her work”.
Giovanna Easton, one of the proprietors of the Speciality Inn where she worked for 22 ...
DATE: Sep 27, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Police Service has their sights set on a new gun range.
An invitation to tender for the project in Fort Prospect in Devonshire was printed in The Royal Gazette yesterday.
The notice said: “The work involves the preparation of the proposed...
DATE: Sep 27, 2017
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Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff