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Governor Thorold Masefield has thrown his weight behind the local Amnesty International (AI) chapter's petition drive against the war in Sierra Leone.
Mr. Masefield promised local AI representative and Sierra Leonian Ayo Johnson and his concerned cou...
DATE: Jun 14, 2000
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Since January, 192 objections to new land tax rates have been processed by the Land Valuation Department, a spokesman said yesterday.
Eighty people have agreed to an amended annual rental value to their homes and 112 taxpayers have withdrawn their ob...
DATE: Jun 08, 2000
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a boater complained to Marine and Ports and The Royal Gazette .
Tough questions were asked of the people who maintain the Island's channel markers following reports that two markers had not been repaired in a year.
Marine and Ports Director Ron Ross ...
DATE: Jun 08, 2000
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illegal fish pots and were each fined $9,000 during an early morning Magistrates' Court hearing.
Magistrate Will Francis called the offences committed by the Pembroke trio Roger Decosta, Joseph Dawson, and Margaret Ann Davis "very serious'' and noted...
DATE: Jun 06, 2000
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Deregulation within the Japanese insurance industry may mean increased business in the local captive insurance market.
Last week Premier Jennifer Smith met with Kuniaki Atarashi, president and CEO of New Network Insurance Inc.
With the giant Sumitomo...
DATE: Jun 05, 2000
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details of her illness was not known by press time last night.
The 73-year-old Government Minister was reportedly taken off the new weekend cruise ship Crown Dynasty in Dockyard on Friday night and rushed directly to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital...
DATE: Jun 05, 2000
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last night called on Minister David Allen to bring travel agents to the Island -- rather than travel to them.
Mr. Dodwell, who admitted that he did some travelling in his three years as Tourism Minister in the last United Bermuda Party Government, sa...
DATE: Jun 05, 2000
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Opposition MPs were fuming last night after what one called a "slick'' move to "stifle'' debate by Premier Jennifer Smith.
The UBP Parliamentarians were left flabbergasted when Speaker Stanley Lowe stood and adjourned the House of Assembly after only...
DATE: Jun 03, 2000
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Four arrests and more than a dozen seizures were made by a combined team of Police Narcotics and Central CID officers last night.
Roving through areas of Pembroke and Devonshire in a caravan of cars, 22 officers under Insp. Stuart Crockwell screeched...
DATE: Jun 02, 2000
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a reform of criminal sentencing in the courts and backed the use of corporal punishment.
And the youth magistrate also turned on the Children's Act, railing against his lack of power in directing the amount of time a juvenile offender must serve in a...
DATE: Jun 01, 2000
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