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RISING demand from the international business community has prompted British Airways to add a fourth flight to its weekly winter schedule.
That will give Bermuda more direct London flights during the tourism off-season than BA has offered since it be...
DATE: Apr 16, 2004
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FANS at the XL Capital Open next week will be able to see exactly how fast big-serving Greg Rusedski is hitting the ball with the help of a serve speedometer being used at the tournament for the first time.
Rusedski's booming serve has been clocked a...
DATE: Apr 16, 2004
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BRITAIN'S Prime Minister Tony Blair finished his week-long holiday on the island yesterday by thanking the people of Bermuda for respecting his family's privacy.
After meeting some of the island's young Carifta Games athletes at Government House, Mr....
DATE: Apr 16, 2004
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AN e-mail urging people to write to Government House and the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office to demand that Bermuda's Independence should only be achieved through a referendum has been widely circulated over the past week.
We were unable to determin...
DATE: Apr 09, 2004
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ATTORNEY General Larry Mussenden is considering whether to recommend beefing up sentencing powers for magistrates dealing with drug offenders.
He told the Mid-Ocean News that he was looking closely at the 30-year-old Misuse of Drugs Act and comparing...
DATE: Apr 02, 2004
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OPPOSITION Leader Dr. Grant Gibbons accused Premier Alex Scott of avoiding issues that might put Bermudians off Caricom in his report of his meeting with the Caribbean Community last week.
In a lengthy statement to assembled media, Mr. Scott quoted t...
DATE: Apr 02, 2004
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THE airline link between Bermuda and Cuba is a private enterprise, as opposed to a Government move to do business with the Castro regime, Premier Alex Scott told departing US Consul General Denis Coleman this week.
Mr. Scott said yesterday he had met...
DATE: Apr 02, 2004
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MORE than 120 overseas visitors flew to the island to watch the inaugural Bermuda Open squash tournament last week, according to organisers.
And around a million pages have been downloaded from the Open's web site, suggesting a high level of global i...
DATE: Mar 26, 2004
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DECISIONS on who will be charged in connection with the Bermuda Housing Corporation (BHC) scandal will be made within weeks, Acting Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Kulandra Ratneser said yesterday.
"I am now looking into the BHC inquiry and wit...
DATE: Mar 26, 2004
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F the academic talents of gifted children were nurtured with the same zest as youngsters' sporting talents, then fewer of our best brains would be going to waste.
That is the view of top American educator Dr. Rena Subotnik, who told a public forum in...
DATE: Mar 19, 2004
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