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"We don't insult people's intelligence and we try not to assault people with volume.'' Jazz trumpeter Chuck Mangione -- who some call the father of `smooth jazz' an honorific which he seemingly bristles at -- is in Bermuda this week to kick off the ...
DATE: Oct 11, 1999
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Transport Minister Ewart Brown on the taxi industry.
Dr. Brown said his fellow Warwick West MP will liaise with the Taxi Advisory Committee and one of his first tasks is to oversee Government's plan to recognise the Bermuda Industrial Union as the le...
DATE: Sep 16, 1999
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Bermuda has a new princess -- and her name is Maxene Mathias.
She was crowned Little Miss Paradise last weekend.
Ten-year-old Maxene will this week enter Warwick Academy for her first year of middle school as the third Little Miss Paradise.
Maxene, M...
DATE: Sep 04, 1999
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Bermuda College students and graduates received new scholarships and awards at the annual convocation.
Chairman of the College's Board of Governor's Randolph Horton announced three new scholarships and awards in honour of the College's 25th anniversa...
DATE: Aug 31, 1999
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The Transport Ministry is considering the increasing the maximum size of private cars.
But the Minister, Ewart Brown, has not made a final decision and last night said Cabinet might get to see the changes by December -- if at all.
"It's a safety issu...
DATE: Aug 26, 1999
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The waters of Mangrove Bay were alive this summer with the sounds of teenagers learning the ropes of helming the smallest competitive sailing class.
The Sandys Boat Club Optimist course has proven to be popular with parents and children interested in...
DATE: Aug 21, 1999
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Young Observer
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The battle with the mosquito known for spreading the killer Dengue fever is continuing with no end in sight.
And the Ministry of Health has warned that if just one resident returning home or a visitor is suffering from the debilitating disease and ge...
DATE: Jul 23, 1999
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Ambitious plans have been launched for a series of land monuments commemorating the Middle Passage of the African slave trade.
And one Bermudian woman who witnessed the lowering of a sculpture 400 kilometres off the North American coast described a s...
DATE: Jul 22, 1999
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Making the face of Bermuda's business executives look more like the racial make-up of the community is good business, Hamilton Rotarians were told yesterday.
Linbert Spencer, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's minority ethnic liaison officer, said...
DATE: Jul 14, 1999
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may receive a reprieve from the Swiss government.
Local Amnesty International member Brian Horsfield said he has met Gopinath Chandrasegaram twice in Switzerland where the teen is back with his parents and sister.
Dr. Horsfield said education and emp...
DATE: Jul 12, 1999
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