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The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce has delivered a mixed review of Government’s Throne Speech, supporting several initiatives while expressing concern about others.
Government announced that it was moving forward with modifying shippi...
DATE: Nov 10, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Air Conditioning team has been crowned the “Kings of Construction”.
The BAC outfit beat off the Fire Service and two teams from the Regiment to claim top honours and receive the coveted silver shovel at Friday night’s block party.
Four te...
DATE: Nov 10, 2014
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The Beachfest Emancipation Celebration made a bigger mess than organisers hoped this year, but it still took a step toward becoming a “green” event.
The Chewstick Foundation, Beachfest’s organisers, attempted to make the event environmentally friendl...
DATE: Nov 10, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The 38-year-old male who was injured in an altercation on Union Street, in Pembroke, on Saturday has been upgraded from critical to stable condition at the Intensive Care Unit of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
A 57-year-old Bermudian man has been...
DATE: Nov 10, 2014
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Bermuda’s “new airport” has been signed into being with a redevelopment agreement between Government and the Canadian Commercial Corporation, Finance Minister Bob Richards announced this morning.
The Island will get a roughly new $200 million termina...
DATE: Nov 10, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
Police have confirmed that they are looking into a complaint stemming from “an incident” outside the polling station in the Sandys South constituency last Thursday.
Confirmation came shortly after One Bermuda Alliance chairwoman Lynne Woolridge accus...
DATE: Nov 10, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
The trial of a man accused of the murder of 18-year-old Jason Lightbourne began this week, with prosecutors saying the killing was revenge for an assault that took place hours earlier.
Prince Barrington Edness, 28, has denied a charge of premeditated...
DATE: Nov 10, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A new immigration policy due to come into effect next month will “further marginalise” Bermuda’s local entertainers by failing to give them “fair opportunity in their country”, according to the Opposition.
But Government has rejected the claim, insis...
DATE: Nov 10, 2014
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Sam Strangeways
Groundbreaking for hotel redevelopment at Ariel Sands — plus a pledge for “open and inclusive” government — were among the topics in a post-Throne Speech press conference by Michael Dunkley and his Cabinet this afternoon.
The Premier said there was ...
DATE: Nov 10, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
A Pembroke man has pleaded guilty to keeping a pit bull without a valid licence.
The court was told that Scott Dill, 29, had found the animal and started feeding it but had not intended to keep it. He was charged with the offence on March 12.
As it...
DATE: Nov 10, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan