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Governor Sir Richard Gozney admitted last night that crime levels are too high and public confidence in the Police too low after new statistics revealed that violence offences are on the increase.
Violent crime went up by almost ten percent in 2008, ...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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Lionfish are indigenous to the Indo-Pacific and Red Sea, but are now expanding rapidly in the Atlantic and Caribbean.
It is thought they were first introduced into Biscayne Bay, Florida, in 1992 from a private aquarium in a waterside home swept into ...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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A bill to protect vulnerable witnesses has been approved by Cabinet and is likely to go to the House in the summer, Attorney General Kim Wilson has revealed.
She said the Justice Protection Bill will allow Police to relocate witnesses during an inves...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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Senators passed a bill to allow park officers to hand out on-the-spot tickets yesterday.
The Bermuda National Parks Amendment Act 2009 updates the National Park Act 1986 and creates a host of new parks as well as ten new marine parks.
Introducing the...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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A Devonshire man was injured when his motorcycle was struck from the rear. Police attended the accident on Tuesday morning on South Road near Warwick Camp. It was reported that both vehicles were travelling west with the motorcycle in front of the ca...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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Bermuda can expect gale force weather today — but a repeat performance of Monday's severe storm is not expected.
Forecasters said last night that southwesterly winds would increase from late afternoon onwards from strong to gale force and would get w...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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Sam Strangeways
People who have experienced Tall Ships voyages are being asked to step forward to help establish a new database of sail trainees.
Tall Ships Bermuda wants to contact all of the young people who were placed on ships by Sail Training Bermuda in the 200...
DATE: Feb 18, 2009
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Shadow Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley yesterday urged Government to do more than just hold 'special sessions of Cabinet' to address growing levels of violent crime.
Sen. Dunkley called for the Progressive Labour Party to stop blaming the Gove...
DATE: Feb 18, 2009
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Finance Minister Paula Cox will deliver her fifth and arguably most crucial Budget on Friday.
She is tasked with helping keep the economy going during the recession, while also upholding her pledge to cut spending in all Government departments by mor...
DATE: Feb 18, 2009
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A new restaurant celebrates the Island's maritime heritage amid an extraordinary mural of the seafaring ships of the mid-nineteenth century.
At The Point restaurant you can enjoy fine dining surrounded by Clippers, whaling ships and the great harbour...
DATE: Feb 18, 2009
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