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A children’s charity has partnered with Bermuda Broadcasting to produce a three-part television series to shed light on the issue of child sexual abuse in Bermuda.
The episodes, starting tonight, will feature survivors, parents of abused children an...
DATE: Sep 28, 2015
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Bermuda’s “secretive” system of government will be cracked open when the first major disclosures under Pati are made, according to the Island’s first information commissioner.
Gitanjali Gutierrez said the Island’s Westminster system was traditionally...
DATE: Sep 28, 2015
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Cabinet minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin has condemned “hate speech” after a presentation at a packed Liberty Theatre denouncing homosexuals and interracial marriage.
Washington speaker Ayo Kimathi, who publicly endorses the mass killing of white peo...
DATE: Sep 28, 2015
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Highly paid consultants working for the Bermuda Government and other public authorities will have details of their salaries routinely revealed under the Public Access to Information (Pati) Act.
Taxpayers will be told on a regular basis about every co...
DATE: Sep 28, 2015
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Bermuda seaglass is on sale in the United States after a visitor and jewellery maker carried 70lb of it home in suitcases.
According to an Erie Times-News report by Lisa Gensheimer, Becky Fox began selling seaglass jewellery six years ago through Bec...
DATE: Sep 28, 2015
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
She’s only ten but she’s got a good grip on the ancient world and civilisations, and is not adverse to tackling maths questions designed for high school students.
Joanna Santiago is proving to be a model student and was recently chosen to participat...
DATE: Sep 28, 2015
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Recent moves by leading global law firms to set up offices in Bermuda mark something of a watershed for our jurisdiction. Bermuda has been renowned for its strength and depth with regard to quality lawyers, however, it has not always been heralded fo...
DATE: Sep 28, 2015
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A Bermudian living in the United States was one of the tens of thousands of people who filled New York’s Central Park for a glimpse of Pope Francis on Friday.
While Susan Gibbons said her encounter with the Pope was momentary, the experience of the e...
DATE: Sep 28, 2015
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Journalists have been making good use of the Public Access to Information (Pati) Act since it became law on April 1 — but not every request for disclosure has been successful.
Here, we detail several failed bids to find out more.
• Residents at Summ...
DATE: Sep 28, 2015
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Losing two chief executives in the space of three years has added to the challenges faced by the Island’s telecommunications sector watchdog.
And things are going to get busier as the Regulatory Authority of Bermuda (RAB) prepares for the regulation ...
DATE: Sep 28, 2015
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Scott Neil