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A lawyer at island firm Sedgwick Chudleigh has been Called to the Bermuda Bar.
Neil Thomson, an associate attorney at the firm, became eligible to practise as a barrister in Bermuda last Thursday after a court ceremony in front of Chief Justice Ian K...
DATE: Aug 09, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Legendary local actor Earl Cameron, who turned 100 yesterday, is the first to admit that the milestone comes as a surprise.
“I never expected to live this long, I don’t suppose anybody does,” Mr Cameron told The Royal Gazette.
“If you’d told me ten y...
DATE: Aug 09, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
North Village Community Club president Shervin Dill yesterday said security would be beefed up in the wake of a break-in at the clubhouse that cost it around $1,400.
Mr Dill said: “We’re very disappointed and upset because we all work hard for the co...
DATE: Aug 09, 2017
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Crime
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A limit drastically curtailing lobster fishing licences just weeks before the season resumes has taken the community by surprise.
“It’s like a secret edict,” said longstanding fisherman Ted Gauntlett, about restrictions that would bar hundreds from a...
DATE: Aug 09, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Mental health professionals have called for barriers surrounding mental illness to be broken down.
And they said the culture of silence around mental health problems needed to end so the subject could be properly discussed and dealt with.
“No one tal...
DATE: Aug 09, 2017
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A rare local seabird is pulling back from the brink of extinction thanks to a “100 per cent successful” breeding season.
But conservationist David Wingate warned that the survival of Bermuda’s three remaining pairs of the common tern remains precario...
DATE: Aug 09, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Broadcasting Company has been taken to court by the Performing Rights Society for alleged breaches of copyright legislation.
And, according to a preliminary ruling, the broadcaster asked Supreme Court to find that the island’s copyright l...
DATE: Aug 09, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A footballer suffered fatal stab wounds after a fight erupted over a refused drink, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.
A female witness gave evidence that Raymond Butterfield got into a fight with Mikiel Thomas, 19, outside the Blue Waters Anglers Cl...
DATE: Aug 09, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Police have repeated their call for witnesses to the fight that disrupted Cup Match at the Wellington Oval.
Four people have already appeared in Magistrates’ Court to deny taking part in the disturbance that happened shortly after 6.15pm last Friday....
DATE: Aug 09, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A new portfolio will address Bermuda’s ageing and increasingly chronically diseased population, the new Junior Minister for Disability Tineé Furbert said yesterday.
Ms Furbert was speaking after Senators Crystal Caesar, Vance Campbell and Jason Haywa...
DATE: Aug 09, 2017
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Politics
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