Jonathan Bell
Senior Reporter at The Royal Gazette
Senior reporter at @TheRoyalGazette, and a Bermudian of many places.
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5 days ago |
royalgazette.com | Jonathan Bell
A lifelong musician, pianist and meticulous teacher was a top organist, performing for shows, weddings and funerals as well as the Wesley Methodist Church. Lloyd Matthew, a former music director at the Bermuda School of Music, also taught at secondary, middle and primary school levels across the island. He gave private piano lessons and developed unique ways to get youngsters interested in music, such as organising bell choirs, with groups ringing bells of different pitch.
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1 week ago |
royalgazette.com | Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Chamber of Commerce has fired back after David Burt, the Premier and Minister of Finance, appeared to relegate the group's work on housing and population numbers to the realms of guesswork. The chamber's forum featured in a war of words between Mr Burt and Douglas De Couto, the Shadow Minister of Finance, during the motion to adjourn last Friday, when the former unleashed his "guesses on figures" comment - drawing a response from Marico Thomas, the chamber president.
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1 week ago |
royalgazette.com | Jonathan Bell
A former prison inmate who spent a decade in jail after being convicted in 2012 of attempted murder and using a firearm has had his convictions quashed after the central item of forensic evidence against him was deemed unreliable. The ruling yesterday by the Court of Appeal meant that Anwar Muhammad, who had been accused and convicted by a jury of shooting and injuring Shantoine Prinston Burrows in August 2010, has had his name cleared.
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1 week ago |
royalgazette.com | Jonathan Bell
Bermuda's capital has ranked favourably among residents and businesses in a "satisfaction survey" - the first of its kind for Hamilton. The city scored well for cleanliness and appearance, while finding and paying for parking was ranked as "more difficult than ideal". The firm Narrative Research polled city residents and property owners, and, separately, businesses within the city limits.
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1 week ago |
royalgazette.com | Jonathan Bell
The island is to take the lead in the region for armed police training, with its firearms capability already setting a benchmark, Government House said. Officers from Bermuda and Britain's Caribbean Overseas Territories have been engaged in training with the International Policing Assistance Service.
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