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Government moved to clarify that it will be purchasing low-cost housing units at the Grand Atlantic Development site.
Housing Minister David Burch said Government will spend $40 million to purchase 78 units in Warwick, but would be "immediately" sell...
DATE: Jul 13, 2010
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The Premier's former campaign manager Andre Curtis was briefly a wanted man yesterday, when a warrant was issued for his immediate arrest.
Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves issued the warrant after Curtis, 48, failed to turn up for a Supreme Court hearin...
DATE: Jul 13, 2010
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A mason from Sandys was fined $1,600 after he was caught with cannabis in an increased penalty zone.
Walter Pereira, 33, admitted the offence in Magistrates' Court.
Crown counsel Auralee Cassidy told the court that on March 7, Police were searching v...
DATE: Jul 13, 2010
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A former deputy mayor of Hamilton has dropped his claim of slander against Bermuda Broadcasting Company (BBC).
Bill Black issued a writ against the company in September 2008 after ZBM and ZFB television and radio reports which aired in June that year...
DATE: Jul 13, 2010
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Government fears people would think it's pandering to the Becky Middleton campaigners if it made its new double jeopardy law retroactive, according to former Attorney General Phil Perinchief.
AG Kim Wilson has said it would be against Bermuda's Const...
DATE: Jul 13, 2010
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Police are hunting for a 24-year-old prisoner who escaped custody shortly after a court appearance this morning.
Alvon Maybury was charged in Magistrates’ Court with three fireams offences - possession of a firearm in Pembroke between December 18 and...
DATE: Jul 13, 2010
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Our Robben Island tour guide, Benjamin, became committed to armed struggle when his pregnant girlfriend was shot through the mouth and killed during the countrywide uprisings against South Africa's apartheid government in 1976.
The uprising started o...
DATE: Jul 13, 2010
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Premier Ewart Brown and his wife Wanda are hosting a Farewell Gala to mark the end of his tenure as Bermuda's leader.
Save the date notifications were sent out last week telling people the weekend event will take place from September 10 to 13.
Last y...
DATE: Jul 12, 2010
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Students in the public school system are allowed to graduate without having the minimum grade point average (GPA) to get into an American college or university.
The minimum GPA for graduating students in Government senior schools is 1.0 a D.
Berkeley...
DATE: Jul 12, 2010
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New legislation allowing non-Bermudians and exempt companies to buy residential units on hotel properties could devastate Bermuda's local housing market, according to Opposition MPs.
They accused Government yesterday of not thinking through the Bermu...
DATE: Jul 12, 2010
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