153499 results returned for search: "" category "News"
Bermuda 18 Barbados 5
Defending champions Bermuda won their opening match of the NACRA Under-19 tournament with a comfortable win over Barbados in Cayman Island on Monday night.
Team manager, Peter Clark said: “The team played a great first half of w...
DATE: Jul 12, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
The three percent pension increase is “woefully inadequate” for seniors because of rising healthcare costs, according to the One Bermuda Alliance.
Opposition MPs told the House of Assembly the additional funds would mean very little to seniors as mos...
DATE: Jul 12, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A 47-year-old man was handed a conditional discharge in Magistrates’ Court after throwing a bag of potatoes at his wife “in the heat-of-the-moment”.
Guilbert Araujo, from Sandys, pleaded guilty to assault.
He and his wife, Maria, had been married fo...
DATE: Jul 12, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
Police have been given additional powers to try to stop suspects breaching their bail by heading straight from the police station to the airport.
Junior National Security Minister Jonathan Smith agreed Bermuda’s law needed to be tightened up, as some...
DATE: Jul 12, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
A former professional wrestler who considers Bermuda “one of the best places on the planet” has offered to help the Island overcome its social challenges.
World Wrestling Entertainment veteran John Layfield is now in talks with the Family Centre to b...
DATE: Jul 12, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Allowing hard-up tenants facing “imminent” eviction to tap into their pensions to pay off rent arrears is a “sensible” plan, according to Premier Paula Cox.
The Finance Minister told the House of Assembly the current economic crisis was continuing to...
DATE: Jul 12, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Government needs to go easy with the red tape and bureaucracy or international businesses will be scared away.
This was the main concern of Senators debating a new law for Bermuda’s financial sectors to keep information and records straight.
The Spe...
DATE: Jul 12, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
Shooting victim Shakeda Davis was lucky she was sitting when she was hit by bullets fired from a passing motorcycle.
So believes her grandmother Inez Dill. She said the fact that her 26-year-old was sitting on her bike when she was shot saved her fro...
DATE: Jul 12, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Crime
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Restaurant burgled
Police attended a reported burglary at a St George’s restaurant on Saturday morning. It is believed that sometime on Friday night or early on Saturday morning thieves gained entry into the premises and removed a quantity of alcohol...
DATE: Jul 12, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Crime
|
The legal executive profession is to be officially recognised and protected through new legislation unanimously passed by the Senate.
The Legal Executives (Registration) Act ensures that legal executives must reach a minimum standard of expertise an...
DATE: Jul 12, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
