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Bermuda will be able to send prison inmates with mental disorders overseas for treatment under legislation approved last week in Parliament.
Health minister Kim Wilson told MPs the legislation would help persons requiring “special psychiatric treatme...
DATE: Jun 04, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Families gathered at Paget Primary School yesterday in a show of support for the Progressive Labour Party’s by-election candidates.
The crowd enjoyed a party atmosphere, complete with music, fun castles, refreshments and speeches at the Family Fun Da...
DATE: Jun 04, 2018
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Politics
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Walton Brown is helping shape international guidelines on violence and harassment at work.
The home affairs minister is part of a Bermuda delegation at the 107th session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, which is advising...
DATE: Jun 04, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Legislation designed to make Bermuda a world leader in financial technology was passed by MPs yesterday.
David Burt, the Premier and finance minister, said the Digital Asset Business Act came in the wake of a law to regulate initial coin offerings, ...
DATE: Jun 02, 2018
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Politics
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Bermuda’s Portuguese community was “ecstatic” after it was announced yesterday that a public holiday next year will mark the 170th anniversary of the arrival of the first immigrants from Madeira.
Andrea Moniz-DeSouza, the Honorary Portuguese Consul, ...
DATE: Jun 02, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, accused Commissioner of Police Michael DeSilva of poor succession planning yesterday after three Bermudians were overlooked in the hunt for his replacement.
Mr Caines said they had applied to replace M...
DATE: Jun 02, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A violence reduction programme is under way in Bermuda’s prisons, national security minister Wayne Caines told Parliament this morning.
The programme has been completed by six inmates in Westgate, Mr Caines said.
The four- to six-month programme is b...
DATE: Jun 01, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Attorney-General Kathy Lynn Simmons issued the following press release today:
As a follow-up to yesterday’s Press Release in regards to this matter, updated figures have come to light that paint an even clearer picture of the status of the Judicial d...
DATE: Jun 01, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Press Release
Bermuda’s Constitution is unfinished because it failed to give human rights protection to women and gay people, One Bermuda Alliance senator Andrew Simons said yesterday.
Mr Simons told the Senate that there was a “certain irony” to David Burt’s call...
DATE: May 31, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Engineer Roger Todd is the new Director of the Department of Public Transportation.
Mr Todd has over 25 years of experience leading, coaching and developing industrial and professional teams, according to the Ministry of Transport and Regulatory Affa...
DATE: May 31, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff