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Concerned citizens are one step closer to being able to check the Sex Offender Register according to the Women’s Resource Centre.
Elaine Williams from the centre has been working with Attorney General Kim Wilson and the Coalition for the Protection o...
DATE: Jul 05, 2012
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Boys aged eight to ten must be targeted with “laser precision” to eradicate Bermuda’s gang problem, according to former Police Commissioner and Government Senator Jonathan Smith.
Sen Smith said UK research shows how risk factors measured in boys of t...
DATE: Jul 05, 2012
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The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science (BIOS) is already on the right track, according to the institute’s newly named director.
Dr William Curry, the Director of the Ocean and Climate Change Institute and Senior Scientist in the Department of Geology...
DATE: Jul 05, 2012
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda’s seniors need an independent watchdog according to Opposition MP Louise Jackson.
Mrs Jackson, the spokesperson for seniors with the One Bermuda Alliance, has been calling for an Ombudsman for Seniors for at least seven years.
According to th...
DATE: Jul 05, 2012
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Seniors will be protected by law from paying car licence fees, under legislation tabled by Transport Minister Walter Roban.
But they will have to visit TCD and show their driving licence to qualify for the exemption, as the Ministry cracks down on ab...
DATE: Jul 05, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
An islandwide manhunt continues 36-year-old Shane Todd, a prisoner at large who failed to return to the Prison Farm at the designated time.
The inmate who was on the work release programme has been missing since last Friday. He is described as brown ...
DATE: Jul 05, 2012
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Staffing levels returned to normal yesterday at BTC where a number of departments were “affected by a large number of absences due to sickness”.
On Tuesday BTC CEO Lloyd Fray said: “Whilst we believe that the unusually high number of absences may hav...
DATE: Jul 05, 2012
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Front Street rocked to the sound of fireworks and music as it was turned into Main Street USA for a spectacular 4th of July celebration last night.
Among the sights at the event, which attracted thousands of visitors, was a charity race involving men...
DATE: Jul 05, 2012
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Two thieving sisters who stole almost $500,000 from their grieving grandmother have this afternoon been jailed for 15 months each.
Sending Lorraine Smith and Audra-Ann Bean to prison, Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves told them: "You became consumed by y...
DATE: Jul 04, 2012
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It's a real giant of the sky - and it's made an unexpected visit to Bermuda, only to be snared in fishing line.
The Magnificent Frigatebird - with a wingspan of seven feet, was probably blown to Bermuda by Tropical Storm Debbie, according to Audubon...
DATE: Jul 04, 2012
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