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Outgoing Ombudsman Arlene Brock says her investigation into the “sad and unnecessary” desecration of historic tombstones at Tucker’s Point has been the hardest to conduct during her eight years in office.
Ms Brock, who is soon to be replaced by lawye...
DATE: Feb 11, 2014
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Public transport workers are renewing calls for increased security after yet another bus driver was attacked on the job.
In the latest incident, which took place yesterday morning on South Road, a 53-year-old female driver needed hospital treatment a...
DATE: Feb 11, 2014
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Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy last night declared that history will not be repeating itself over the issue of commercial immigration.
The “wrongs” of the 1960s, when the United Bermuda Party government attached the right to vote to residency, wo...
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Government Senator Jeff Baron will be sending a fresh pair of Bermuda shorts to the Houston Chronicle, following an online post by the Texas paper which said Olympian Tucker Murphy was upholding Bermuda’s “tradition of looking like idiots” by wearing...
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A pressure group calling for a referendum on gaming has collected close to 4,000 signatures in just a few weeks.
And one group member has launched a fresh attack on Government after it was revealed that officials had commissioned a consultant to inve...
DATE: Feb 11, 2014
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The Progressive Labour Party has dismissed claims it is spreading “reckless, unpatriotic and potentially destructive” information about Government policies abroad, insisting that its concerns are genuine.
And Shadow Home Affairs Minister Walter Roban...
DATE: Feb 11, 2014
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Unlucky Warwick residents have suffered power outages three times in the last week because of three unrelated technical glitches.
The lights first went out for several hours on February 5, affecting around 500 customers in the Tamarind Vale area.
The...
DATE: Feb 11, 2014
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Bermuda Tourism’s official Facebook page has almost doubled the number of followers it had a year ago, attracting more than 100,000 ‘likes’.
A press release from Bermuda Tourism Authority said the page had experienced a 91 percent increase in the num...
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Actress Shirley Temple has died at the age of 85 — 75 years after a celebrated call on Bermuda brought the Island’s attractions to international attention.
Hollywood’s child starlet in the 1930s, she was at the height of her fame when she visited the...
DATE: Feb 11, 2014
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A 19-year-old man has been charged with four counts of sexual assault.
He is accused of having unlawful carnal knowledge with two 14-year-old girls in Devonshire on February 8, and administering cannabis to the girls in order to have sexual relations...
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