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Insurance industry veteran Brian Duperreault has been made the honorary director of the charity that provides transport for the elderly and disabled.
Mr Duperreault, the chief executive officer of global insurance firm AIG, was given the accolade by ...
DATE: May 15, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
A family walk across Hamilton at 6pm today celebrates both the International Day of Families — and the tenth anniversary of the local community group Family Forum.
A confidential support circle, Family Forum was created in 2009 by the helping agency ...
DATE: May 15, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
A woman who spent more than a decade working with New York’s underprivileged is the new head of a Bermuda charity that provides food for the disadvantaged.
April Augustus, the executive director of the Eliza DoLittle Society, said the queues she saw ...
DATE: May 14, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
The owner of a burgled jewellery store in the Town of St George fears it could be targeted again.
Jan Card, owner of the Vera P. Card jewellers in Water Street, said yesterday that the store had been hit by thieves five times since the Olde Towne’s p...
DATE: May 14, 2019
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Crime
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Jonathan Bell
An extraordinary municipal election will be held for the Corporation of St George to fill the seat of municipal residents’ councillor on June 20.
The election open just to residents of the municipality, is to choose the sixth councillors’ seat left v...
DATE: May 14, 2019
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Government still has a contract with local tech firm Trunomi to develop the Perseid electronic identification project, which uses blockchain technology.
David Burt, the Premier, told the House of Assembly during Premier’s Question Time on...
DATE: May 13, 2019
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The seconded Commissioner of Corrections will not return to the crisis-hit prison service, it was revealed yesterday.
The news that Lieutenant-Colonel Eddie Lamb would not go back to the job came as the House of Assembly was told that Westgate prison...
DATE: May 11, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The retirement age should be increased to 70 over a ten-year period, a Labour Advisory Committee report recommended yesterday.
The report, tabled in the House of Assembly, said Bermuda’s ageing population had put pressure on pension plans and public ...
DATE: May 11, 2019
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police overstepped their authority when they handcuffed a 15-year-old schoolboy in the care of the Department of Child and Family Services and locked him up at the Co-Ed prison last week, a Supreme Court judge has ruled.
Assistant Justice Mark Pettin...
DATE: May 10, 2019
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
World Lupus Day will be marked today. The event was designed to bring together people affected by the autoimmune disease.
The Bermuda Lupus Association will hold a tag day tomorrow. The tag day will run from 10am to 6pm in Hamilton, with tag sellers ...
DATE: May 10, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell