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A special conference is to be held next month to mark the 180th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Bermuda.
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley will be the keynote speaker at the event, which will also examine the development of human rights since the ...
DATE: Jun 26, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A US healthcare magnate’s long standing love affair with Bermuda will go on display, starting tomorrow evening, with a trove of rare stamps and early postal artefacts at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art.
The exhibition is part of a host of event...
DATE: Jun 26, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Youngsters at Victor Scott Primary are making a big difference by finding ways to reduce the amount of trash being thrown out, and switching off lights and air conditioning when rooms are not in use to save electricity.
“We’re using 1,000 kilowatts p...
DATE: Jun 26, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Family, friends and dignitaries gathered in Magistrates’ Court yesterday to celebrate the latest five graduates coming out of Bermuda’s Drug Treatment Court (DTC) programme.
Dignitaries including Chief Justice Ian Kawaley, Senator and Junior Minister...
DATE: Jun 26, 2014
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Court
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A Warwick man was today fined $800 after pleading guilty to cannabis possession.
Jace Levigne, 34, of Cobbs Hill, admitted the charges in Magistrates’ Court.
Police officers found Levigne in possession of 4.26 grams of the drug and 0.07 grams of cann...
DATE: Jun 26, 2014
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A Bermudian shopkeeper has been accused of breaching human rights laws after hurling “a barrage of insults” at a foreign customer.
Belinda Cyrus, who runs the Bermuda School Uniforms store with her husband Carmon, is alleged to have made the remarks ...
DATE: Jun 26, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A 22-year-old convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl has been sentenced to five years behind bars.
Kristopher Gibbons, who was 21 at the time of the incident, admitted receiving oral sex from the girl in a friend’s backyard last July, bu...
DATE: Jun 26, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Hospital bosses are refusing to say how much their failed bid to stop the Coroner holding an inquest into a patient’s death will cost the public purse.
Hubert (Hubie) Brown, who ran Hubie’s Bar on Angle Street, died aged 66 in December, 2002 at King ...
DATE: Jun 25, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Government must move quickly to address the issue of mandatory retirement and age discrimination, according to lawyer Jennifer Haworth.
However, Mrs Haworth told the Hamilton Rotary Club yesterday that Government must also strike a very delicate bala...
DATE: Jun 25, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
This year’s Newport Bermuda Race marks the end of an era.
Since 2003, Eugene Rayner, 73, has served as chairman of the race’s finish line committee with great pride.
But, after serving in the role for just over a decade, the former ZFB programme dire...
DATE: Jun 25, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
