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A foreign national was air lifted off the Island, after he fell three stories off a balcony in St. George's.
According to a Police spokesman, the incident happened around 8.10 p.m. on Saturday at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS). The sp...
DATE: Oct 27, 2009
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United Bermuda Party chairman Jeff Sousa yesterday claimed his Warwick West rival Mark Pettingill was the instigator behind last month's high-profile party walkouts.
The chair believes Mr. Pettingill quit the party in retaliation after being repriman...
DATE: Oct 27, 2009
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Tim Smith
Waste disposal efficiency is to be increased by a third incinerator at Tynes Bay.
Plans were first unveiled for a third stream in a planning application two years ago.
At the time, Government said the stream was needed to meet a projected two percent...
DATE: Oct 27, 2009
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A man caught smuggling almost $59,000 worth of cannabis into Bermuda in his suitcase was convicted by a jury this afternoon.
Tyshaon Rawlins brought eight slabs of cannabis in on a JetBlue flight from New York on June 2, hidden in the lining of one o...
DATE: Oct 27, 2009
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A former AS Cooper employee who claims she suffered long-term injuries after falling through a rotten floorboard in the store is begging the company to compensate her.
Yvonne Dawson told The Royal Gazette she still suffered major health problems alle...
DATE: Oct 27, 2009
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Sam Strangeways
A global human rights organisation has welcomed Bermuda's draft freedom of information bill, calling it a "very progressive document".
But Article 19 yesterday urged Government to revise the proposed legislation to ensure it meets international stand...
DATE: Oct 27, 2009
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Bermuda's only mental health facility has just one seclusion room for dangerous or suicidal patients, an inquest heard yesterday.
This means staff at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute (MWI) must choose which patient gets use of the room if two or m...
DATE: Oct 27, 2009
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A 17-year-old girl suffered injuries to her head, neck and abdomen after crashing into a wall on Sunday.
Police responded to the accident near Somerset Bridge around 6 p.m.
A Police spokesperson said: "It appears that an auxiliary cycle was travellin...
DATE: Oct 27, 2009
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda could soon follow countless developed democracies around the world by passing a law giving taxpayers the right to access information held by public authorities.
But just how much openness would the proposed public access to information (PATI)...
DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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The Bermuda flag will be mounted on the Front Street flag-pole daily, the Corporation of Hamilton announced yesterday putting an end to the long-lived tradition of the Union Flag in Hamilton.
Britain's Union flag, which is also known as the Union Jac...
DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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