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Businesses and homeowners within reach of Pembroke Canal have welcomed news that Public Works intends to improve the drainage of Hamilton’s inland waterway.
Work is to start next week with the removal of mangroves at the point where the canal empties...
DATE: Sep 28, 2011
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police attended an accident involving an SUV and a motorcycle in Devonshire.
No one was injured in the collision, which occurred on South Road near the junction of Devon Springs Road.
Said a Police spokesman: “It appears that the motorcycle was trave...
DATE: Sep 28, 2011
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Crime
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Shadow Health Minister Katherine Michelmore has called for answers over the plight of adults with disabilities whose Government day care facility is “completely inadequate” for their needs.
The Orange Valley Centre for adults with mental and physical...
DATE: Sep 28, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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“We haven’t spent your money without telling you” is the message from Transport Minister Terry Lister, who insists no decisions have been made on dredging Bermuda’s shipping channels.
Mr Lister has announced he wants to speak to the public directly ...
DATE: Sep 28, 2011
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Politics
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Bermuda could be in line to benefit from charity cash generated by the UK Lottery, according to a British Government minister visiting the Island.
Henry Bellingham told a press conference at Government House it seemed “quite wrong and anomalous” for ...
DATE: Sep 28, 2011
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Cabinet Minister Glenn Blakeney insisted yesterday a “great deal of attention” was being paid to updating Bermuda’s Human Rights Act.
The Minister of Youth, Families and Sports made the comment after Amnesty International Bermuda chastised the Govern...
DATE: Sep 28, 2011
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Human Rights Commission is launching a series of roadshows to spread the word on its mandate, and how the law applies to everyone residing in Bermuda.
A spokesman said the Commission hoped to deliver a “town hall style” presentation of its work t...
DATE: Sep 28, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief last night failed to get reselected as the Progressive Labour Party candidate for his Pembroke Central constituency, losing out to former Senator Walton Brown.
Mr Perinchief is understood to have picked up ...
DATE: Sep 28, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Bermudian now resident in Canada has called for a course in public relations for bus operators, charging that “every year I come home, I find the bus service getting worse”.
Ilona Smith told The Royal Gazette that a woman driver shouted at her daug...
DATE: Sep 28, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A 46-year-old Pembroke man has appeared in Magistrates' Court on charges of unlawfully wounding another man.
Guest worker Armindo Daponte, of Rockville Lane, denied injuring Timotoe Silva on June 12.
Arruda Construction boss Ricardo Arruda translated...
DATE: Sep 28, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
