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Immigration officials have been slammed for tying small businesses up in bureaucratic red tape.
And some company bosses say they are being deliberately discriminated against by civil servants responsible for issuing work permits.
The accusations were...
DATE: Sep 27, 1999
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carry out a controlled explosion after a shell was discovered on Horseshoe Bay yesterday afternoon.
And Police could now be forced to carry out an extensive search of the Island's coast for more devices after it was revealed that yesterday's discover...
DATE: Sep 25, 1999
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Island hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue.
For the threat of high winds was enough to force many stores to shut down for the day while the Island's hotels received a stack of last minute cancellations.
And Government will also be left w...
DATE: Sep 23, 1999
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to deliver the damage and destruction it had threatened before it swept past Bermuda yesterday.
Forecasters originally feared that the eye of the hurricane would come within 60 nautical miles of the Island, bringing with it winds of more than 100 mph...
DATE: Sep 22, 1999
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A Government Minister and his shadow joined forces to condemn criticisms of the Island's drug testing policy in sports.
Both Youth and Sports Minister Dennis Lister and Shadow Youth and Sport Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin spoke out after drug abus...
DATE: Sep 21, 1999
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A yachtsman who wrote an inspirational book about his voyage through life with terminal cancer has died from the disease.
Phil Wilson, who published "Life Lines'' last year, died at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital last Wednesday after battling the ...
DATE: Sep 20, 1999
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A drugs researcher has blasted Government policy on drugs testing in sport for "taking people away from sports''.
Walton Brown, who has carried out extensive research on behalf of the National Drug Commission, launched the broadside following revelat...
DATE: Sep 18, 1999
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in the last four years, according to the latest statistics.
And it would appear women are making the most complaints, with nearly 25 percent of investigations being into cases of discrimination because of pregnancy.
Last year the Commission launched ...
DATE: Sep 02, 1999
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One of the first tasks of any future Press council should be to take a hard look at "a Bermuda government which admits that it denies the public its right to know'', according to former Royal Gazette Editor David L. White.
Earlier this summer Telecom...
DATE: Aug 31, 1999
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would drift north up the US coast failed to materialise.
Early yesterday forecasters believed that the storm would move into a trough of high pressure which would carry the storm out of harm's reach by the end of the day.
But last night the storm slo...
DATE: Aug 31, 1999
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