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The Salvation Army's Harbour Light has begun to treat gambling addiction after counsellors recognised a growing problem in Bermuda.
"Gambling is the silent addiction,'' programme director Nelson Bascome said this week.
"When you question individuals ...
DATE: Jun 12, 1998
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Illegal immigrant Chandrase Gopinath was released yesterday from jail into the care of a local couple.
But his fate still hangs in the balance as the Swiss Federal Office for Refugees decides whether the Sri Lankan teen still has a right to live in S...
DATE: Jun 03, 1998
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countries in a "March for Jesus''.
Organisers say the march is an event to proclaim their faith to their city, country and to the world.
Participants will gather at Crow Lane, Paget, at 1 p.m. for prayers and worship and the march will begin at 2 p.m...
DATE: May 30, 1998
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"Flee! A good run is better than a bad stand,'' graduates of the third Alpha Course at Westgate Prison heard yesterday.
This was the advice of guest speaker, Philadelphia Pennsylvania's Rev. Melvin Floyd before he gave certificates of completion to 2...
DATE: May 30, 1998
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An auditor for Davison's of Bermuda has admitted that the company's books were "a real mess''.
James Cornes was testifying during the trial of Canadian accountant Colin Cave who is accused of stealing more than $54,000 from the company between July a...
DATE: May 28, 1998
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Bermuda's finest young debaters did battle last week when they argued the finer points about what makes a good neighbour.
The Bermuda Debate Society's Heritage Month Debate held at the Berkeley Institute featured members of its World Schools Debating...
DATE: May 27, 1998
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Spreading the Gospel among Bermuda's prison inmates may seem like a thankless job, but, according to volunteer Eddie Fisher, it has changed him.
"I'm supposed to go to uplift others,'' Mr. Fisher told The Royal Gazette this week, "but it is often rev...
DATE: May 23, 1998
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after claims that a pornographic clip was aired during technical difficulties.
Bermuda Broadcasting Company's CBS television feed was disrupted on Tuesday night by the loss of the Galaxy 4 satellite over the US.
And although ZBM/Cable 3 was only off ...
DATE: May 21, 1998
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ERROR RG P4 23.5.1998 A story in Wednesday's paper stated that Reid Jones was serving seven years for his part in "the robbery''. It was referring to the July 8, 1997 hold-up of the Bank of Butterfield in Somerset, not the Woody's Drive Inn robbery ...
DATE: May 20, 1998
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The man who allegedly borrowed Randolph Lightbourne's car on the night of the Woody's Drive Inn robbery was off the Island at the time.
A Supreme Court jury learned this on the penultimate day of the robbery trial.
Lightbourne, of Devon Springs Drive...
DATE: May 19, 1998
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