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Bermuda’s Premier Ewart Brown is almost alone among his peers in requiring a personal bodyguard.
This week Public Safety Minister David Burch said a threat assessment had been carried out which required a new higher level of security for Dr. Brown.
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DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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Stealing $20 from his employer cost a 19-year-old Pembroke man $500 in Magistrates' Court yesterday.
Crown counsel Cindy Clarke told the court how Will Simmons, owner of Double W a video rental store, reported his front desk employee to Police for st...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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Violent crime is at its highest point in seven years following an increase in attacks by gangs and individuals across Bermuda.
Statistics released yesterday show there were 93 violent crimes in the last three months of 2006 — more than the correspond...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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On the day that Police reported violent crime had hit a seven-year high, a 77-year-old man and his female companion were viciously attacked by two robbers who broke into their guest house.
The senior was punched in the face — causing him a bloody nos...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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A new automated Customs process is expected to reduce congestion on the docks.
The Department of Customs will introduce a programme known as CAPS, Customs Automated Processing System, shortly. A spokeswoman for the department said the new system woul...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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Education Minister Randy Horton has rebutted a claim by his Opposition counterpart that he failed to tell school principals he was planning a review of the public education system.
Shadow Education Minister Neville Darrell alleged yesterday that the ...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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World-leading hotel group Jumeirah expects to open the first stage of its planned Southlands hotel resort before the end of 2008 with the entire scheme up-and-running by the end of 2010.
An assurance has been given that Southlands' woodland reserve h...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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The Education Minister was inducted into the The Company of Honorary Fellows of the Bermuda College.
Minister Randy Horton was inducted into the group along with the CEO of the Bank of Bermuda HSBC, Philip Butterfield.
The chairman of the group, Lt. ...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert falsified a building contract in order to secure a bank loan, a court heard yesterday.
The United Bermuda Party politician also failed to pay contractor Eustace Floyd Forth, of F2 Property Management Group, more than $...
DATE: Jan 30, 2007
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Public Safety Minister David Burch acknowledged yesterday he ordered a threat assessment on Premier Ewart Brown which highlighted a need for detailed security.
When word leaked last week that a bodyguard was in the works for the Premier, Opposition L...
DATE: Jan 30, 2007
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