155125 results returned for search: "" category "News"
Chewstick’s Good Friday celebrations at Horseshoe Bay are back on after Government issued a last-minute permit for the event.
The about-face comes a day after the charity cancelled the annual event, claiming the Department of Parks ignored repeated r...
DATE: Mar 09, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Bermuda joined countries around the world in celebrating International Women’s Day yesterday.
Amnesty International Bermuda and the Women’s Resource Centre issued a release in honour of the annual observance.
“In Bermuda today women’s rights are larg...
DATE: Mar 09, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
The Tourism Board has been officially gazetted but it appears House Speaker Randolph Horton was included in error.
Mr Horton, who was on the Board last year, told this newspaper that he stepped down when he became Speaker of the House on February 8.
DATE: Mar 09, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
The Bermuda Regiment is to erect a memorial honouring soldiers who died while in service.
An appeal has been launched to ensure no-one is overlooked 41 names are on the list at present.
The memorial will be established near the flagpole at Warwick Ca...
DATE: Mar 09, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Smugglers who attempt to pass banned cell phones to Westgate inmates could find themselves facing a stiff jail sentence.
Government is planning to introduce tough new penalties, including lengthier custodial sentences, for anyone convicted of trying ...
DATE: Mar 09, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Crime
|
AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A Warwick man admitted assaulting a police officer trying to pull him this week, telling the court he was trying to pick up his son.
Avonn Browne, 40, pleaded guilty to assault, failing to stop for police, driving an unlicensed vehicle and driving wi...
DATE: Mar 09, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A quarantine that had been in place at Gordon Ward has been lifted, Bermuda Hospitals Board announced yesterday.
The decision was made after 96 hours passed without any new cases of gastroenteritis reported at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
“Ber...
DATE: Mar 09, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
A Pembroke teenager whose DNA was found on the trigger of a gun was yesterday jailed for handling the firearm.
Dameko Dublin, 19, had denied having any contact with the Smith & Wesson revolver seized by officers on November 5, 2011.
He was initially ...
DATE: Mar 09, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Former Bermuda Housing Corporation manager and Regiment Major Glenn Brangman has appealed his sentence for sexually assaulting a male clerk.
Shade Subair told Supreme Court that her client’s three-and-a-half year sentence was manifestly excessive.
Th...
DATE: Mar 09, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Patient satisfaction is rising consistently, announced the Bermuda Hospitals Board, with the release of its latest annual survey.
Approval of Emergency Room services rose from 66.4 percent in 2009 to last year’s 93.2 percent.
Inpatient units got 92.7...
DATE: Mar 09, 2013
|
CATEGORY:
Health
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
