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dry-cleaning businesses at the heart of a battle over union recognition. The shock move came on the eve of further talks with the Bermuda Industrial Union over holding a ballot at Hamilton Val Cleaners and Paget Dry Cleaners. But an emotional Mr. Tho...

British Airways' fourth weekly flight scheduled for the summer will not get off the ground. And yesterday Tourism Minister David Dodwell admitted the move was a major shock. The slap in the face to the Island's tourism and business sectors came despi...

yesterday. And Customs officers who refused to work in a run-down shed are to work through the weekend to clear a backlog of urgent packages and documents. The week-long dispute started after Customs officers walked out of the clearing shed at the Ai...

have been snubbed by Government, the industry claimed yesterday. And courier firm owners said three possible solutions to the industrial relations impasse at the Airport have been knocked back by Customs officials. Representatives from the firms said...

Premier David Saul was last night staying tight-lipped over a controversial plan to bypass restrictions on foreign development at the old Bermudiana Hotel site. Dr. Saul -- speaking from Switzerland where he is attending the World Economic Forum -- s...

tills, according to the latest Government statistics. Spending in the retail sector went up 2.1 per cent on gross turnover for the third quarter of 1996 compared to the third quarter in the previous year. All sectors of the retail market showed incre...

discount scheme. And Tourism Minister David Dodwell said the new-look Temperature Guarantee Programme, now in its fifth year, is hitting the mark in the Island's overseas markets. Mr. Dodwell said that surveys in the past had shown overseas opinion s...

Communications giant Cable & Wireless have threatened to sue the Bermuda Government over plans to open up the Island's phone system to competition. The firm wants three years' notice to prepare for competitors -- a legal right, according to its lawye...

on the Island, a top US politician told guests at a Progressive Labour Party banquet at the weekend. And Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters said Bermudians had to stand up for themselves and insist on Island ownership and top management. But Rep....

A visitor yesterday blasted bankers for refusing to change Scottish banknotes into Bermudian dollars. Patricia Paterson tried to change around 300 ($450) of notes issued by Scotland's Clydesdale Bank. But a teller at the Bank of Butterfield's Roseba...