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Facing Mental Health: Liana Hall’s story


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Mental health should no longer be treated as a taboo subject, and in Bermuda there are few stronger advocates than Liana Hall. But her openness about her bipolar disorder came after years of suffering in silence, an improper diagnosis and two attempts to take her own life. The condition, which used to be referred to…...

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Ewart Brown rebuts corruption allegations, says Attorney General made a “terrible mistake”

90 minute interview with former premier Ewart Brown


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Former premier Ewart Brown has given a point by point rebuttal to allegations of corruption made in a lawsuit against Lahey clinic. In a 90 minute interview with Think Media yesterday, Brown insisted that the allegations that he engaged in a healthcare fraud with Lahey clinic were groundless. He told us his lawyers were preparing…...

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Facing mental health: Broken system prolonged Karl Outerbridge’s homelessness

Taxpayer funds wasted in the search for a roof over his head


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Karl Outerbridge’s stint of homelessness is officially over. The former insurance professional moved into an apartment last fall after three months of sleeping rough and is happy that he has a roof over his head. But his story is a catalogue of systemic failures and an indictment of how society cares for vulnerable people. Outerbridge…...

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Ewart Brown will be exonerated – DeSilva


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Opposition MP Zane DeSilva is confident that his friend and former cabinet colleague Ewart Brown will be exonerated from allegations of bribery and corruption. DeSilva spoke to us on Friday at the House of Assembly as legislators filed out on the lunch break. He is the only MP to come out strongly to the defence of…...

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Moniz hopeful of Lahey lawsuit settlement


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Attorney General Trevor Moniz is hopeful that a civil suit against Lahey clinic will be settled without the need for a lengthy and expensive trial. In his first interview since Tuesday’s filing of the suit, Moniz explains why taxpayers heard about the suit through the media, and his hopes for a settlement. He also rejects…...

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Premier silent on cabinet approval of Lahey lawsuit


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Premier Michael Dunkley yesterday declined to confirm whether cabinet approved a decision to launch a civil action against Lahey clinic that could cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. But Attorney General Trevor Moniz is hoping that the hospital moves to settle the matter without a trial. And he has flatly denied charges that Bermuda…...

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Politics today – February 17, 2017

Live reporting from the House of Assembly


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Brown defiant as Government sues Lahey clinic


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Former premier Ewart Brown remains defiant as Government files a lawsuit alleging that US hospital Lahey Clinic bribed him to help it gain preferential access to Bermuda’s healthcare market. The suit filed on Tuesday in US federal court was reported in US news outlets prompting Government to make an official statement. Contacted last night for…...

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Lahey lawsuit alleges Ewart Brown gave kickbacks to doctors, received bribes


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Government of Bermuda’s lawsuit against Lahey Clinic claims it engaged in a 20 year racketeering scheme with former premier Ewart Brown that cost Bermuda millions. Dr Brown has dismissed the development as a continuation of what he says is a politically motivated campaign against him, while the Massachusetts hospital has dismissed the claims as “baseless”…....

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