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with the passage of an amendment and regulations to the Pensions Act.
The National Pensions Scheme (Occupational Pensions) Amendment and the National Pension Scheme (General) Regulations passed without objection in the final Senate session of the yea...
DATE: Dec 23, 1999
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A tourist has received almost $140,000 in damages for injuries suffered in a head-on collision with a car in 1992.
British visitor David Mcleod sued Bermudian Darren Smith in the Supreme Court and was this month awarded $138,995.90 by Assistant Justi...
DATE: Dec 22, 1999
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The story of the Bermuda Land Snail is also the tale of a young man looking for a subject to build a career on -- who later became a leading scientist.
Famed Harvard professor Steven Jay Gould stumbled onto the natural history of the Poecilozonites g...
DATE: Dec 20, 1999
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A nanny working for a former Government minister died after an accidental fall on a rocky shoreline, a coroner has ruled.
Acting Magistrate Justin Williams said Herminda Villareal died on August 22, 1998 while fishing on the rocks near Shadow Finance...
DATE: Dec 17, 1999
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The sentencing of three schoolboys for the Harrington Sound Primary School arson has been delayed because social inquiry reports were only produced yesterday.
The boys will be sentenced on January 26 after their lawyers make submissions to the Juveni...
DATE: Dec 16, 1999
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to take a library course on it.
Conducted by Joanne Brangman, head of the Bermuda National Library, the Library Research Skills for Parents course offered by the Community Education Development programme will begin in the new year.
It is not the firs...
DATE: Dec 14, 1999
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a liquor licence.
Liquor Licensing Authority chairman Will Francis yesterday told owner Paul DeCouto to return for a full hearing for a provisional licence on January 6 to give Police time to present their objections.
The Par-la-Ville Road extended h...
DATE: Dec 11, 1999
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through the use of a new reporting system.
The change has been so marked that the Ministry of Education is planning to use its attendance recording system throughout public schools.
After speaking with the Ministry's truancy officer Leonard (Shinah) ...
DATE: Dec 10, 1999
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list of his assets for a bankruptcy hearing.
The former MP will return to court on January 26 when a statement of affairs must be produced for the Registrar of Companies.
Appearing before Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons yesterday, Mr. Hall asked fo...
DATE: Dec 10, 1999
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After nearly 100 days as Government's top truancy officer, Leonard (Shinah) Simons says efforts to improve school attendance are beginning to work.
While he admitted that the truancy problem was serious, Mr. Simons yesterday told The Royal Gazette th...
DATE: Dec 08, 1999
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