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The Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sports, the Hon. Lovitta Foggo, is encouraging the public to support a series of events being hosted this month in the lead up to the Emancipation Day observances.
Emancipation Day is August 1st, and is ...
DATE: Jul 05, 2019
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Senior civil servant Major Marc Telemaque asked immigration officials to find a way for Bermuda to issue travel documents to the four refugee Uighurs, but was rebuffed.
Major Telemaque sent a “high importance” e-mail in January 2011, the day before h...
DATE: Jul 04, 2019
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Construction firms remain unpaid for their work on the stalled Caroline Bay hotel and homes development, two sources said yesterday.
One contractor, who asked not to be named, said he had “heard nothing official and received no money”.
The news came ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
A Canadian artist who has painted princes and prime ministers has donated some of his work to a Bermuda art gallery.
Bernard Poulin, whose subjects have included the Royal Family’s Prince William and Jean Chrétien, a former Canadian prime minister, a...
DATE: Jul 04, 2019
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Sarah Lagan
A child safety campaigner has called for urgent investment in more courtroom space so young victims of sex crimes do not have to wait years for their cases to be heard.
Debi Ray-Rivers, the founder an executive director of charity Saving Children and...
DATE: Jul 04, 2019
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A central parish has been hit by a plague of rats, residents said yesterday.
Residents in the Appleby Lane area of Paget said the neighbourhood had been overrun by “brazen” rodents.
Ian Adderley, who lives in Appleby Lane, said: “I’m not blaming anyb...
DATE: Jul 04, 2019
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People going to live, work or study in Canada will be able to have their biometric information collected in Bermuda for the first time, it was revealed yesterday.
The Ministry of National Security has launched a trial programme to allow residents to...
DATE: Jul 04, 2019
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Sarah Lagan
The Ministry of Finance has been criticised for a refusal to release correspondence related to the airport development agreement.
A Public Access to Information request was made for the exchange between Bob Richards, the One Bermuda Alliance former f...
DATE: Jul 04, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
Police tonight thanked the public for their assistance in locating a woman earlier reported as missing.
Family members had contacted authorities this afternoon over the absence of 43-year-old Tamara Smith.
At 8.40pm, a police spokesman reported Ms Sm...
DATE: Jul 04, 2019
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Sarah Lagan
Heritage Nights are to return to the Town of St George next week after a decade’s absence. Businesses, restaurants and historic sites will welcome visitors on Friday nights.
George Dowling III, the Mayor of St George, said last night: “We took to re...
DATE: Jul 03, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell