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Union leaders hailed their solidarity yesterday as Bermuda Industrial Union announced it has joined Bermuda Trade Union Congress.
BTUC president Shine Hayward and BIU president Chris Furbert said unions would now have more strength as they will be ab...
DATE: May 15, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A former civil servant and his wife have tonight been found guilty of pocketing almost $543,000 of taxpayers' money, following a three-month trial.
Kyril Burrows, 48, and Delcina Bean-Burrows, 49, engaged in what a prosecutor described as "a systema...
DATE: May 14, 2012
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Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert will takes the stage today before a large crowd — around 37,000 people, if Boston’s Fenway Park baseball stadium is full to capacity.
Gombey performer Shawn Caisey gets to throw the first pitch of the game, and Mr Furbe...
DATE: May 14, 2012
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Tourism
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Prison inmate Kino Outerbridge definitely took heroin on the morning of his death, a forensic analyst told an inquest — and was killed by the drug within 20 minutes.
Forensics expert Desiree Spriggs, a specialist in drug toxicology, said the chemical...
DATE: May 14, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The United Bermuda Party is calling on Government to establish covenants that will ensure that the replacement housing at Ireland Island will always be for lower income families.
The call comes in the wake of Public Works Minister Michael Weeks’ anno...
DATE: May 14, 2012
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Politics
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Keen to boost its numbers, the Bermuda Scout Association hosted a visiting UK commissioner to explore “more flexible leadership roles” for time-pressed adult volunteers.
However, if changes are made to the Scouts, making the organisation co-ed is unl...
DATE: May 14, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A one-year study has confirmed Bermuda is capable of drawing a significant portion of its energy from the ocean.
According to local firm Triton Renewable Energy Ltd, the findings from a marine monitoring buoy open the way for “informed development” o...
DATE: May 14, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Harvard professor of surgery says it would be of “great advantage” to Bermuda to have an on-Island air ambulance — for emergency medical evacuations and to get organ transplant patients to the US quickly.
Dr Stefan Tullius, chief of transplant surg...
DATE: May 14, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Dale Lee is convinced his son Brandon is only alive today because of Bermuda Air Medivac (BAM).
Brandon, now 28, crashed his motorcycle while driving home during a bad storm in September 2010.
He had no visible injuries that night but the next day he...
DATE: May 14, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda could permanently lose its on-island air ambulance next month unless an investor willing to buy the business for $2 million comes forward.
The service stopped operating temporarily at the end of last year as owners Eloise Bell and Sheldon Smi...
DATE: May 14, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
