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Chamber president critical of PLP’s Walter Roban’s ‘intellectually bankrupt’ gibe
By Ayo Johnson
The Bermuda Chamber of Commerce is standing by its view that job creators should be given status.
Opposition MP Walter Roban’s characterised those who p...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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Environment Minister Sylvan Richards trivialised the struggle for civil rights in House of Assembly remarks on Friday, according to Opposition Senator Diallo Rabain.
Mr Richards had sought to highlight what he said had been the Progressive Labour Par...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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Premier Craig Cannonier plans to reduce the size of Cabinet in accordance with recommendations from the UK’s National School of Government.
But the Premier is not saying what those recommendations — made in 2011 to the former Progressive Labour Party...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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Police are investigating after two punts were reported stolen in St George’s.
The punts were stolen last week from Scott’s Harbour, near the Swing Bridge.
Said a Police spokesman: “The first, BB Gun, is described as green in colour with a blue bottom...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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Bermuda Industrial Union President Chris Furbert has defended the cost cutting agreement made between Government and its employees and criticised members who complained to the media about the deal, saying their concerns should have been taken up inte...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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Budget
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Same-sex marriage will likely make its way to Bermuda, but probably not any time soon, according to a UK law professor.
Human rights lawyer Nicola Barker, due to address Bermuda College graduates on the topic, told The Royal Gazette that gay marriage...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Former civil servant Leyoni Junos has been dealt another blow by the courts in her struggle to challenge her eviction.
But yesterday Ms Junos told The Royal Gazette she still intends to continue the fight.
Three years after HSBC Bank claimed possessi...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Four men have been arrested for questioning in connection with the sexual exploitation of nine girls under the age of 18 over the past six days.
Officer in charge of the Vulnerable Persons Unit, Inspector Mark Clarke told reporters yesterday, the vic...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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A 35-year-old Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute patient yesterday admitted sexually assaulting a teenage girl on a bus.
Kevin Rubaine kept putting his hand on the 17-year-old’s right thigh as they rode the bus on July 25, Magistrates’ Court heard.
Cro...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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Court
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Anti-drink driving organisation CADA yesterday welcomed the reintroduction of a mandatory ban for those convicted of drink driving.
“CADA is gratified that the technical error, made in October last year, has now been corrected. We are pleased that th...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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