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Senators may get the chance to make or break Wayne Furbert’s Bill to reverse the legalisation of gay marriage, according to lawyers interested in the draft law.
Mark Pettingill and Rod Attride-Stirling, who argued the case that led to same-sex marria...
DATE: Sep 15, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A young Bermudian who spent a year travelling with the cultural exchange programme Up With People has said the experience opened his eyes to the world and gifted him with a network of friends for life.
Bermuda College student Tariq Brown, 20, set off...
DATE: Sep 15, 2017
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Sarah Lagan
Touching down in Bermuda this week, Andrew Sheldon’s thoughts drifted back 46 years to one of the most traumatic moments in his life.
It was July 1971 and Andrew, 17 at the time and visiting the island with a Canadian church group, was involved in a...
DATE: Sep 15, 2017
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David Burt will today accuse the former government of failing to budget for a “staggering” $13 million worth of spending this financial year, including an extra $4.3 million on the America’s Cup sponsorship guarantee.
The Premier and Minister of Fina...
DATE: Sep 15, 2017
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda Botanical Society has handed out scholarships to Tiffany Bean, Shane Antonition and Amber Reid.
Tiffany is about to commence an environmental science degree at Trent College, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada and received $4,000.
Shane is studyin...
DATE: Sep 15, 2017
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News Staff
A 25-year-old cruise ship passenger was today handed a suspended prison sentence for possessing 3.73 grams of cannabis.
Ioas Durham, from Boston, was sentenced to one month in prison, suspended for six months, for the offence that happened in Sandys...
DATE: Sep 15, 2017
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Court
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News Staff
Bermudians in Britain were urged to be alert of their surroundings after a terror attack in London yesterday.
Police launched a manhunt after an explosion on a District Line train from Wimbledon during the morning rush hour left at least 20 people i...
DATE: Sep 15, 2017
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Health minister Kim Wilson called on all corners of society to jump aboard a national health drive.
Ms Wilson said the 50 Million Steps Challenge will help combat a health epidemic in which 75 per cent of adults are overweight or obese, 33 per cent h...
DATE: Sep 15, 2017
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Politics
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News Staff
A photo of guns and ammunition circulating on social media is from Barbados, not Bermuda, according to police.
Some had suggested the contraband had been discovered on the island, but police issued a statement stressing that was not the case.
The Ber...
DATE: Sep 15, 2017
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Crime
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News Staff
Recruitment policies by employers will be closely monitored as part of a “next wave of changes” to immigration policy.
Home affairs minister Walton Brown told the House of Assembly other items on the agenda would be an enhancement of the musician ent...
DATE: Sep 15, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell