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Legislation allowing for a crackdown on vehicles pumping out toxic exhaust emissions is still a work in progress, more than three years after Bermuda Emissions Control launched its pollution testing project.
The Ministry of Transport yesterday said i...
DATE: Aug 16, 2012
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Tim Smith
In order to cut costs, residential recycling will now be picked up once every two weeks instead of once a week, the Department of Waste Management announced yesterday.
The change is expected to reduce the cost of Bermuda’s recycling programme by more...
DATE: Aug 16, 2012
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A lawyer has started a blog to help demystify the law for ordinary people in Bermuda.
Peter Sanderson regularly updates www.onionlaw.blogspot.com with reports of interesting court judgments together with a commentary on their implications.
Mr Sanders...
DATE: Aug 16, 2012
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Top distance runner and anticonscription activist Lamont Marshall has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm to a couple through impaired driving.
Mr Marshall is alleged to have seriously hurt motorcycle rider Ian Scotton, 25, from Warwick an...
DATE: Aug 16, 2012
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Court
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Michael Winfield, President and CEO of Cambridge Beaches is to retire after 30 years with the resort.
Derek Stapley, Chairman of Cambridge Beaches and its parent, the Frascati Hotel Company, issued a statement this afternoon saying Mr Winfield would ...
DATE: Aug 15, 2012
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Tourism
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Recycling pick-ups have been switched from weekly to fortnightly, the Department of Waste management said today.
The new schedule started on August 1.
A spokeswoman said: "The Waste Management Department carries out monitoring of waste pick up includ...
DATE: Aug 15, 2012
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Government aims to eradicate the problemn of feral chickens by 2015, Minister of Public Works Michael Weeks announced today.
It is estimated there are about 30,000 feral chickens on the Island and previous attempts to control the population have not ...
DATE: Aug 15, 2012
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Environment
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Former teacher Derek Tully has been elected as a trustee for the Association for Middle Level Education.
Dr Tully, who retired last year after 40 years in Bermuda’s public education system, will help develop a strategic plan for middle level educatio...
DATE: Aug 15, 2012
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A St George’s man was sentenced to a month in jail after failing to meet his regimental duties.
Richard Trott, 22, of Southside Road, claimed that his asthma prevented him from performing as a soldier.
Prosecutor Tawana Tannock told Magistrates’ Cour...
DATE: Aug 15, 2012
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Court
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Police are investigating the stabbing of a 16-year-old boy in Smith’s yesterday morning.
The incident is said to have happened in the area of Zuill’s Park, Wilderness Lane and Lolly’s Well around 1am.
Said a Police spokesman: “The victim, a 16-year-o...
DATE: Aug 15, 2012
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Crime
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