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Online pundits are unfairly accusing the One Bermuda Alliance of “sinister reasons” for its policy on term limits, Shadow Environment Minister Michael Fahy told the Senate.
The Opposition has called for term limits to be suspended for two years.
“The...
DATE: May 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Nearly five years on, the Mirrors Programme has touched the lives of hundreds — and the statistics show how.
More than 400 young people have followed through on the life skills programme and 1,525 adults have participated.
As a results-driven initiat...
DATE: May 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Smuggling by sea just got more difficult for criminals, under a Bill passed by the Senate awarding greater powers to Customs.
The Revenue Amendment (No 2) Act, 2012, makes it an offence for unauthorised vessels to meet with ships coming into local wa...
DATE: May 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A long-standing volunteer for the Mirrors programme is one of The Royal Gazette’s photographers, Glenn Tucker.
With the launch this week of The Royal Gazette’s one-year campaign in support of Mirrors, he spoke of his many experiences since he first b...
DATE: May 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Trinidadian guest worker conned a Jamaican guest worker out of $14,346 by posing as a lawyer and pretending to help him with immigration and divorce proceedings.
Joel Balfour, a 42-year-old IT engineer, admitted that he obtained the money by decept...
DATE: May 01, 2012
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Health Minister Zane DeSilva and Opposition MP Louise Jackson have praised the officials who helped secure senior abuse convictions for Lorraine Smith and Audra-Ann Bean after they stole almost half a million dollars from their grandmother.
But Mrs J...
DATE: May 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
It has been a year since 22-year-old Jason Smith was fatally shot in Pembroke — but his friends say they miss him just as much as ever.
A group of them will hold a memorial for the Saltus graduate and Regiment lance corporal at his graveside at St Jo...
DATE: May 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Mark Charley’s work with Uncommon Results has taken him from prisons to boardrooms.
He created the Island’s Mirrors programme on the back of that success and has found Bermuda’s children a pleasure to work with.
“I love working in Bermuda,” said Mr C...
DATE: May 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Close to 50 minibus owners turned out last night to hear plans by Government to regulate that section of the Island’s transportation industry.
And they expressed a desire for the minibus service to be given similar options to those granted to the tax...
DATE: May 01, 2012
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For the family of Bermudian educator Dr Alma Foggo-York, the pedestrian killed in Huntsville, Alabama, in February, news of a “case of negligent homicide” could not come soon enough.
When contacted by The Royal Gazette, Dr Yorks sister Kae Foggo said...
DATE: May 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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