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Government is investigating ways in which narrow channels can be widened to enable mega-cruise ships to visit Bermuda.
According to a Public Works Ministry spokesman, a consultant has now been hired to carry out an Environmental Impact Study (EIS) to...
DATE: Jan 24, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Bermuda chapter of Amnesty International is looking to boost its ranks after a drop in membership.
Executive director Suzanne Wilson told The Royal Gazette that the charity now has only about 100 paying members, along with about 200 non-paying su...
DATE: Jan 23, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
An American contract worker remains listed in stable condition in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit following a two vehicle collision on Tuesday.
The accident occurred at 1.45pm on January 21 on Point Finger Road in Paget where a rental livery cycle...
DATE: Jan 23, 2014
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Campaigners seeking to get pit bulls taken off the prohibited dogs list have heard nothing back from Government since they handed over a petition more than a month ago.
Gina Davis, whose pit bull puppy Hershey was put down by dog wardens in December,...
DATE: Jan 23, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell, Attorney General Mark Pettingill, and a technical officer from the AG’s chambers have flown to Singapore on a gambling fact-finding mission.
The trio are in Asia this week to take a first-hand look at the country’s I...
DATE: Jan 23, 2014
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Not surprised by the news, child advocate Sheelagh Cooper was elated to hear of the huge response by the local community to save the food programme to feed students in need at CedarBridge Academy.
One of the first to sound alarms of children going to...
DATE: Jan 23, 2014
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Education
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Police officers accidentally tainted criminal evidence with gunshot residue, a defence lawyer has suggested to the jury at a trial for an attempted gun murder.
Lawyer Marc Daniels also charged that a police firearms officer was giving inaccurate info...
DATE: Jan 23, 2014
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Kind-hearted Bermudians have rallied round to save an under-threat food programme that feeds hungry schoolchildren.
From individual donations to larger pledges from companies big and small, the phone has been ringing off the hook at the Special Assis...
DATE: Jan 23, 2014
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Detectives and two police staff investigators are believed to be the first officers in the UK to become special constables for the Bermuda Police Service.
A total of 16 staff, 14 detectives and two police staff investigators, from the Hampshire Major...
DATE: Jan 23, 2014
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A new set of Government contracts worth more than $1.4 million have been awarded to three separate companies to conduct and certify the next phase of the clean-up at Morgan’s Point.
The contracts, which go through the Office of Procurement and Projec...
DATE: Jan 23, 2014
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