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Mayor of Hamilton Graeme Outerbridge contends the Municipalities Act 2013 is nothing more than a legislative move to “shut down the municipality as an independent entity”.
Letters citing the City of Hamilton’s “detailed concerns” were hand delivered ...
DATE: Oct 03, 2013
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The return to ordinary student life had a slightly surreal tinge for Miss Bermuda Katherine Arnfield.
The 17-year-old returned to friends — and classes — at Saltus Grammar School just two days after her return from the Miss World Pageant in Indonesia...
DATE: Oct 03, 2013
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Efforts to curb the prevalence of non-communicable diseases will begin in earnest next month with the commencement of Bermuda’s first standardised national health survey.
Chronic, preventable diseases “contribute the greatest proportion of the total ...
DATE: Oct 03, 2013
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Health
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Taxi fares are to increase by 25 percent after lobbying from cabbies, Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell announced yesterday.
He told the House of Assembly in a statement that he’d held “extremely productive “ meetings with taxi industry members in r...
DATE: Oct 03, 2013
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This year’s Historical Heartbeats lecture series will begin on Saturday and will feature guest speakers sharing stories about Bermudians who have contributed to society, but whose stories are perhaps not widely known.
Hosted by the Department of Comm...
DATE: Oct 03, 2013
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Police are searching for a car stolen this week from a Warwick residence.
The white Toyota Rav4 was taken from the Morgan Road home sometime between 10pm on Tuesday and 7am yesterday, a spokesman said.
The licence plate number is 45986
“Anyone who ma...
DATE: Oct 03, 2013
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Visiting cruise ships are set to be allowed to keep their casinos open when in port after MPs passed the Cruise Ship (Casino) Act 2013 early this morning.
The concession — allowing on-board casinos to operate between 9pm and 5am — would ensure Bermud...
DATE: Oct 03, 2013
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A self-confessed con man yesterday received 18 months’ imprisonment for dishonestly obtaining more than $17,000 from two victims.
Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner told Jonathan Ratteray, 26, from Smith’s: “You are a con man.”
He replied: “Yes, ver...
DATE: Oct 03, 2013
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Court
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A 37-year-old US chef was fined $800 after he was caught with cannabis.
Samuel Fiddes, of Baltimore, Maryland, told Magistrates’ Court: “It’s my first visit to Bermuda and already I’m in trouble — I apologise.”
The court heard that Fiddes was riding ...
DATE: Oct 02, 2013
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Court
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A Southampton delivery driver who fell by the roadside after driving while impaired has lost his licence for one year.
Magistrates’ Court heard that David Center, 32, was spotted by police on September 28 at about 10.50pm, heading east on Front Stree...
DATE: Oct 02, 2013
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Court
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