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Crime

"Spate of burglaries in Warwick"

After several reported daytime burglaries in the central parishes and Warwick, residents are being encouraged by the Bermuda Police Service to be vigilant. Recent incidents have seen jewellery and electronic items stolen from the areas. Members of th...

Oct 09, 2013

Court

"Darrell continues legal course in long-running human rights complaint"

A board of inquiry assigned to investigate human rights complaints against the Bank of Bermuda in 2006 has yet to deliver a final decision, according to Harold Darrell. Mr Darrell has repeatedly alleged institutional racism at the bank after an emplo...

Oct 09, 2013

Court

"Privy Council cuts murderers’ prison terms"

Two convicted murderers have had their minimum terms in prison cut by the Privy Council in London. Westgate inmates Ze Selassie and Jermaine Pearman yesterday saw their mandatory jail sentences reduced by three years and six years, respectively. The ...

Oct 09, 2013

Environment

"Greenrock: Warming world could have a significant impact on Bermuda"

Global warming could have a significant and direct impact on the Island and its residents, according to environmental group Greenrock. A recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that average sea levels will rise...

Oct 09, 2013

Other

"Unlikely bedfellows: The cahow and the skink"

It’s an unlikely friendship — but peer into a cahow burrow, and while Daisy — the chick who was born there — looks up at you with her big black eyes, Findlay the friendly skink slowly emerges, blinking, from his playmate’s fluffy baby feathers. It’s...

Oct 09, 2013

Other

"Martial arts team on the way to Worlds"

Bermuda will take a team of youth and experience to the 12th World Wushu Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia later this month. The competition, which runs from October 28 to November 5, will see sanshou athletes Jermal Woolridge, Sentwali Woolrid...

Oct 09, 2013

Other

"Women’s Resource Centre workshops to focus on esteem issues for teens"

Young women aged 16 to 19 will get a chance to speak their minds, as the Women’s Resource Centre offers its first self-esteem and assertiveness workshops for teens. A workshop is set for this evening from 6pm to 8pm, at the WRC’s Point Finger Road he...

Oct 09, 2013

Cricket

"Smith heading home — but not just yet"

Coach of the Year Wendell Smith will be back with league and Eastern Counties champions St David’s next year . . . but in 2015 he wants to rejoin his hometown club St George’s to help return them to past glory. It was under Smith’s captaincy and co...

Oct 09, 2013

Other

"Arrest made following assault on police officer"

A man has been arrested after police launched a manhunt following an assault on a female police sergeant in St George’s yesterday. The officer was assaulted after responding to a call for assistance on Anchorage View Road at around 10.30am. “Upon arr...

Oct 09, 2013

International Business

"Ironshore’s global terrorism and sabotage capacity increased to $300 million"

In the wake of the Boston bombing and the Kenyan mall attack, Ironshore Inc. has announced that its global terrorism and sabotage programme, to protect against diverse risk exposure worldwide, has increased capacity to up to $300 million. The insuran...

Oct 09, 2013

Other

"Firm goes green with eco-friendly dumpster rentals"

Trash-It NOW is a brand new business — dumpster rentals to individuals and businesses for recycling and trash collection. Darren DeSilva, who is the entrepreneur behind the well-known water delivery business, Water Now, which offers customers the abi...

Oct 09, 2013

Other

"‘High-quality interest’ in CEO post for new Tourism Authority"

The head of the new Bermuda Tourism Authority revealed yesterday there had been a “high level of high-quality interest” in the recently advertised post of chief executive officer. David Dodwell, the authority’s chairman designate, would not reveal th...

Oct 09, 2013

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Publications

"Spate of burglaries in Warwick"

"Darrell continues legal course in long-running human rights complaint"

"Privy Council cuts murderers’ prison terms"

"Greenrock: Warming world could have a significant impact on Bermuda"

"Unlikely bedfellows: The cahow and the skink"

"Martial arts team on the way to Worlds"

"Women’s Resource Centre workshops to focus on esteem issues for teens"

"Smith heading home — but not just yet"

"Arrest made following assault on police officer"

"Ironshore’s global terrorism and sabotage capacity increased to $300 million"

"Firm goes green with eco-friendly dumpster rentals"

"‘High-quality interest’ in CEO post for new Tourism Authority"