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Government will introduce legislation mandating that criminals serve at least 12 months of their prison sentences before being eligible for release on parole.
Announcing the 2012 Annual Report of the Parole Board yesterday, Public Safety Minister Mi...
DATE: Mar 20, 2013
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A police officer who walked off the job claims he was unable to return to the office three months later because he had been suffering from anxiety attacks brought on by news that he was to be transferred.
But the lawyer representing the Police Commis...
DATE: Mar 20, 2013
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Gareth Finighan
A fire broke out at the Quickie Lickie Laundromat on Serpentine Road at 2.19pm yesterday.
Two vehicles and five personnel from the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service responded.
Firefighters broke into the back door of the Pembroke facility to extinguish...
DATE: Mar 20, 2013
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The purchase of the former Sonesta property is “exciting” and shows that investors want to work with Bermuda, Premier Craig Cannonier told a press conference yesterday.
Mr Cannonier, commenting on the news that the Green family has bought the land in...
DATE: Mar 20, 2013
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Sam Strangeways
Government is in the final stages of preparing declarations for guest workers as work permit rules are revised.
The declarations will ensure guest workers are aware Bermuda does not confer rights of permanent residence and the holder has no expectati...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda’s National Health Plan has been put “on hold” pending a review of the ambitious programme.
It had been expected that the plan would provide universal healthcare for residents by next year.
However, a Health Ministry spokeswoman yesterday sai...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
Cash-strapped families are getting their electricity cut off in increasing numbers, according to social assistance agencies.
The Coalition for the Protection of Children’s Nicola Fleming said the majority of the charity’s new clients over the past ye...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
The second annual City Food Festival launched in Hamilton yesterday, bringing cooking competitions to the Bermuda Gas Showrooms.
Organiser Thomas Lightbourne said a group of chefs were given ingredients over the weekend and were asked to make three t...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Police arrested two men early on Sunday morning after they were spotted driving erratically.
A police spokesman said yesterday that at around 2.30am, officers on mobile patrol on Crow Lane stopped a 30-year-old Pembroke man on a motorcycle.
An hour a...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The public is being warned not to worry when they see tsunami warnings posted on the Bermuda Weather Channel tomorrow — it’s all part of an exercise.
Participants in the international Atlantic tsunami exercise will include the Bermuda Weather Service...
DATE: Mar 19, 2013
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