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The Island will become overwhelmed with social problems unless residents manage to connect with each other, a community group warned yesterday.
Members of Imagine Bermuda pledged to initiate a series of events before the end of summer to help the com...
DATE: Feb 09, 2011
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The Health Department is asking residents to have frank conversations about sex this week.
The idea is to make the public more aware during Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week.
Senior medical officer Cheryl Peek-Ball said: “Parents should h...
DATE: Feb 09, 2011
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A member of Bermudians Against the Draft (BAD) witnessed soldiers being made to carry large logs and urinate into cans during his time in the Regiment, Supreme Court heard.
The allegations came as lawyer Eugene Johnston told Puisne Judge Norma Wade-M...
DATE: Feb 09, 2011
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Bermuda must do all it can to fight the “pervasive sentiment” here and abroad that it is “closed for business”, a top insurance executive insisted yesterday.
Peter Durhager, executive vice president of Renaissance Re, told Hamilton Rotarians that a “...
DATE: Feb 09, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
The maximum payout to victims of road accidents is to rise by more than $100,000, Government announced today.
Transport Minister Terry Lister said changes to the Motor Insurers Fund mean accident victims will be able to receive as much as $375,000 t...
DATE: Feb 09, 2011
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The Bermuda Regiment is “evolving” and “modernising” and is not the abusive environment described by Bermudians Against the Draft, a Government lawyer told Supreme Court.
Crown counsel Shakira Dill was answering allegations made by the campaign group...
DATE: Feb 09, 2011
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Buses are not running as a result of industrial action taken by drivers following the firing of a colleague.
Service stopped at 4.20pm today.
The Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU) held a press conference to announce the work stoppage.
Members took indus...
DATE: Feb 09, 2011
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A career criminal has been jailed for six years for torching his love rival’s car and painting “let her go, she is mine” outside the man’s house.
Brian Rogers, 49, was found guilty by a jury on February 1 of arson, criminal damage, two counts of the...
DATE: Feb 09, 2011
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Government today hit back at environmental groups over concerns about development at Rosewood Tucker's Point resort.
Last week, a special development order was drawn up allowing for new development around the resort - a move which would allow it to r...
DATE: Feb 08, 2011
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Bermuda-based fund administrator Butterfield Fulcrum Group has been acquired by funds industry veterans Glenn Henderson and Tim Calveley, partnered by private-equity firm BV Investment Partners.
BFG, which is part owned by Butterfield Bank and privat...
DATE: Feb 08, 2011
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