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Friends of Hospice is looking for volunteers to help clean up their rubber duckies following the annual fundraising event held on June 2 at Ordnance Island.
Volunteers must be 16 years of age or older and groups of two or more are invited to sign up ...
DATE: Jun 10, 2013
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A man seen parking his bike while three-times over the blood alcohol limit was yesterday banned from the road.
Magistrates’ Court heard that at around 1.10am last Saturday, officers were at the junction of Frog Lane and Palmetto Road when they saw 47...
DATE: Jun 10, 2013
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Regiment has a new man in charge after Lt Col Michael Foster-Brown officially assumed command of the military unit at a handing-over ceremony on Saturday evening.
Lt Col Foster-Brown, 41, takes over from Lt Col Brian Gonsalves, who has be...
DATE: Jun 10, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A boat owner whose 34ft main ship trawler was invovled in a marine collision with another boat on Friday night has sounded a warning for operators to use extra caution at night.
Craig Dixon was on board the craft he just bought from relative a month ...
DATE: Jun 10, 2013
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Government is to withdraw a provision within proposed amendments to the Human Rights Act which critics claimed would enable the police to harass people.
The amendment expands the grounds on which discrimination is unlawful to include sexual orientati...
DATE: Jun 10, 2013
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A halfway house for women recovering from addiction is low on residents — but not vacant, according to the Department of National Drug Control.
A spokeswoman responded to assertions of an anonymous source quoted by broadcasters ZBM news.
The source c...
DATE: Jun 10, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Support for the beating of a schoolboy accused of “disrupting the community” is just a symptom of the Island’s underlying social problems.
So said Family Centre director Martha Dismont after comments praising David Fox’s actions were posted on The Ro...
DATE: Jun 10, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The father of a middle school student beaten with a cricket bat has insisted his son wasn’t a “gang banger” as claimed by his attacker.
The St David's resident, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: "I can assure the public and whoever else i...
DATE: Jun 10, 2013
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government’s emphasis on illicit drugs to fund the Confiscated Asset Fund, as opposed to white collar crime that pays much higher dividends, has been questioned by Shadow Minister of Public Safety Michael Scott.
The Proceeds of Crime Amendment Act 20...
DATE: Jun 10, 2013
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Politics
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Government is still searching for a Director of Archives, almost two years after the last jobholder was placed on administrative leave.
Karla Hayward was sidelined from the $144,000-a-year post in September 2011 after staff threatened to go on strike...
DATE: Jun 10, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
