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Traffic arrests
Over the weekend seven people were arrested on suspicion of impaired driving and Police were called to two burglaries.
There were also ten reported damage only road accidents, six reported traffic accidents resulting in injury and sev...
DATE: Mar 09, 2010
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Legislation raising the salary cap for payroll tax and providing tax relief for retail stores was passed by the House of Assembly last night.
Finance Minister Paula Cox raised the amount of salary on which high earners pay payroll tax from the first ...
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Former long-time Bermuda resident and boss at Mobil Oil's Marine and Trading Company on the Island, John Newton, has died aged 95.
Mr. Newton died in Redding, Connecticut on February 21. He lived in Bermuda for 36 years and retired from running the M...
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Premier Ewart Brown yesterday blamed the Opposition for making him miss the Tourism Budget debate this Friday.
Dr. Brown said he informed the United Bermuda Party weeks ago of the dates he would be available but was told last Wednesday that his minis...
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Freedom of information legislation will be tabled in Parliament before MPs break for the summer, the Premier pledged yesterday.
He told the House of Assembly that a revised public access to information bill (PATI) had been drawn up after more than 50...
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Premier Ewart Brown's Press Secretary is stepping down after less than six months in the post.
Bermudian Arnold Minors assumed the role on October 1.
Dr. Brown announced the move in a brief statement to the media yesterday.
He said: "I would like to...
DATE: Mar 09, 2010
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Government has ignored offers by the Corporation of Hamilton to provide a homeless shelter in the city, according to the city's Mayor.
Charles Gosling told a Corporation meeting that they had approached Government last year offering to renovate one o...
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Opposition leader Kim Swan declared it a "sad day for democracy" after his party was given no opportunity to debate Cabinet Office spending yesterday.
Premier Ewart Brown used an entire two-hour morning session allocated for the debate to deliver a d...
DATE: Mar 09, 2010
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Man denies card store robbery
A 26-year-old denied robbing an elderly woman at Card Cove.
Rasool Ebbin, of Southampton, appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday, and pleaded not guilty to brandishing a knife in the Queen Street shop at 9.40 a.m. on F...
DATE: Mar 09, 2010
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The Bermuda Youth Council has appealed for feedback on how to tackle the issues affecting the Island.
The council comprises of eleven representatives from the Berkeley Institute, CedarBridge Academy, Bermuda Institute, Bermuda High School, Saltus Gra...
DATE: Mar 09, 2010
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