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Seniors excluded from Government financial assistance have been made eligible again.
A stipulation in the 2004 Financial Assistance Regulations, which blocked struggling seniors who owned their own homes from receiving help, has been rolled back, eff...
DATE: Mar 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The newly formed National Security Council met yesterday for the first time.
At a press conference following the meeting, Governor Sir Richard Gozney reported that gangs, security at and after football matches and recent armed burglaries had been on ...
DATE: Mar 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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Prison inmates struggling to cope with life sentences are entitled to help along with those facing release.
This was the message behind a forum connecting inmates with assistance programmes, said Commissioner of Corrections Edward Lamb.
“No matter wh...
DATE: Mar 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
For one Westgate prisoner, the facility’s assistance with finding work cannot ease the fear of release. “There are people who will try to kill me when I get out,” he said.
Even so, the former hospitality industry worker said he appreciated the Commun...
DATE: Mar 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A series of school staff members told a fraud trial that no work was done at their schools to install safety hoardings during Hurricane Florence in 2006.
The issue of hoardings is one of the topics at the heart of the prosecution case against former ...
DATE: Mar 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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Senators clashed over Government’s soaring debt once more as the Budget debate came to an end last night.
One Bermuda Alliance Senators Michael Dunkley and Michael Fahy criticised Government for treating the Sinking Fund as a piggy bank, mismanaging ...
DATE: Mar 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Shadow Health Minister Michael Dunkley yesterday urged Government to reveal its plan to bring seniors’ home Lefroy House up to standard.
Senator Dunkley noted his predecessor Louise Jackson has called for work to be done on the property since Hurrica...
DATE: Mar 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A psychiatric report was ordered on a Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute patient who punched a family friend in the face.
Jerome Thomas, 36, broke Shawn Thomas’ nose as the two sat drinking with friends, Magistrates’ Court heard. The two are not related...
DATE: Mar 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Less than a handful of residents turned out for the last of a series of town hall meetings to discuss the 2012/13 National Budget at Victor Scott School on Tuesday night.
DCI head, Dwayne Caines, in closing out the meeting for the ‘faithful few’ note...
DATE: Mar 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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The definition of the word “use” became the focal point of a trial in Magistrates’ Court after a woman denied driving while using a hand-held device.
Catherine Farnsworth, 30, agreed that she was listening to an iPod while driving along Front Street....
DATE: Mar 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
