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Governor Thorold Masefield yesterday met the Island's senior Police officers to explain a new bid to identify high-flyers capable of filling the Commissioner's shoes.
The meeting -- for officers of Chief Inspector rank and above -- was held to explai...
DATE: Oct 28, 1997
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Convicted sex offender and MP Trevor Woolridge would have been suspended pending an appeal by the British Labour Party, it was revealed yesterday.
A spokesman at Labour's London headquarters said any action against one of its MPs in similar circumsta...
DATE: Oct 24, 1997
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Progressive Labour Party activist Rolfe Commissiong has been suspended from meetings of the party's Central Committee and Parliamentary Committee amid a row over a newspaper interview.
And he has been asked to appear before a special disciplinary com...
DATE: Oct 24, 1997
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An anti-burger franchise MP yesterday got a roasting from lawyers for Sir John Swan's Grape Bay Ltd., whose bid to open a McDonald's has rocked Bermuda.
Mr. Moniz said in yesterday'e edition of The Royal Gazette that a ruling by Puisne Judge Vincent ...
DATE: Oct 23, 1997
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flattened by a Supreme Court judge.
Puisne Judge Vincent Meerabux ruled against a stay of execution pending appeal of his finding last week that the Act of Parliament banning foreign fast food franchises from the Island was unconstitutional.
And -- b...
DATE: Oct 22, 1997
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clergyman convicted of sexual assault yesterday attacked the Progressive Labour Party's handling of the controversy.
She was speaking after the PLP stuck by disgraced pastor Trevor Woolridge -- despite a decision by the Island's African Methodist Epi...
DATE: Oct 21, 1997
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the wake of an attack by former Progressive Labour Party golden boy and by-election candidate Craig Walls.
Mr. Walls -- who crashed in the rock-solid seat of Paget East in May -- hit out at his former party in a recent edition of the Bermuda Industri...
DATE: Oct 21, 1997
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Government and blue collar workers has come down on the employers' side, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
And last night Bermuda Industrial Union leader Derrick Burgess said he was "very disappointed'' at the result from arbitrator Canon James Francis -...
DATE: Oct 21, 1997
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Police Commissioner Colin Coxall yesterday made his last public appearance as Bermuda's top cop.
Kicking off Police Week, Mr. Coxall told worshippers at the Anglican Cathedral in Hamilton: "This is my final public duty as Commissioner of Police after...
DATE: Oct 20, 1997
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`What Scotland actually has is a decentralised system rather than independence. It's not gone off on its own. But people on the Island, irrespective of status, seem confused about what the position is.' -- Ian Davidson A Scots MP visiting Bermuda se...
DATE: Oct 20, 1997
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