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Former Economy and Trade Minister Patrice Minors referred a highly publicised labour dispute to arbitration “because it was politically expedient to do so”, it has been suggested.
Lawyers acting for KFC Bermuda made the remark yesterday during a hea...
DATE: Feb 28, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A Hamilton Parish man was banned from the roads for a year after refusing a breath test.
Matthew Davis, 28, denied a count of driving while impaired but pleaded guilty to failing to give police a sample of breath.
Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday t...
DATE: Feb 28, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Mihdi Brock, the Bermudian boy who has defied the odds by surviving almost 16 years with a rare, life threatening spinal condition is out of the woods but his mother faces a difficult decision about whether he should now undergo spinal fusion surgery...
DATE: Feb 27, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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After almost a decade in storage, a painting depicting life in Bermuda in the 1930s was carried through St George’s on its way to being restored.
‘Building a Bermuda Cottage’, by Emile Antione Verpilleux, is set to be publicly restored at the World H...
DATE: Feb 27, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The public should see the results of an inquiry into the management of Bermuda Hospitals Board next month.
The “clinical and corporate governance” probe was launched in July, after the board suspended on full pay its head doctor, Donald Thomas III, f...
DATE: Feb 27, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
30 confirmed firearm incidents –last year, compared to 26 in 2011 and 54 in 2010
By Ceola Wilson
Bermuda’s crime rate is falling but gun murders continues to top the list of major crimes in 2012, at a rate that remained the same as the total recorded...
DATE: Feb 27, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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A teen was stabbed by a former friend because gang associations pitted them against one another, Magistrates’ Court heard.
Leshaun Wolffe, 17, punctured Tijuan Swan’s lung in the attack at Albuoy’s Point Ferry Terminal on August 1.
The Kitchener Clos...
DATE: Feb 27, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
US Consul General Robert Settje has expressed confidence that the new One Bermuda Alliance Government will get a handle on gang and gun violence in Bermuda.
The former SWAT team member who is also a former prosecutor stressed that the unique set of c...
DATE: Feb 27, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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Two more people have fallen sick due to an unknown bug affecting a ward at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
Gordon Ward remains closed to admissions, and unwell patients are being kept under isolation.
Seven of the 12 patients initially affected ha...
DATE: Feb 27, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Family Centre is to hold a fundraiser in an effort to keep its services running.
The event will be held on March 9 at the Fourways Inn, Paget.
A spokeswoman said the charity had come “dangerously close” to shutting down some of its services due t...
DATE: Feb 27, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
