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Snail mail is damaging Bermuda's international business reputation and could lead to job cuts at the Post Office due to plummeting profits, Shadow Finance Minister Grant Gibbons warned yesterday.
And Dr. Gibbons said Minister of Finance Eugene Cox --...
DATE: May 31, 2000
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A drug-busting group has not had its budget slashed by the National Drug Commission (NDC), Health and Social Services Minister Nelson Bascome has insisted.
And he said the Council for Alcohol and Drug Abuse (CADA) had its funding from the NDC boosted...
DATE: May 30, 2000
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Government is not cutting back on foot soldiers in the war against drugs, Finance Minister Eugene Cox said.
But he admitted that a total of 15 temporary Customs officers devoted to catching drugs on cruise ships had gone as a result of cutbacks.
He w...
DATE: May 29, 2000
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Bermuda failed to show in a list of top hotels in a prestige travel magazine.
But the hotel group set to take over the management of South Shore's Elbow Beach Hotel took two spots in the world's top ten hotels for service -- including second place.
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DATE: May 27, 2000
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a major London conference and insulting the people of Bermuda.
Opposition leader Pamela Gordon hit out after Ms Smith gave a report on the UK/Caribbean Forum, which was almost the same as a joint report issued at the end of the meeting and released e...
DATE: May 27, 2000
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Minister Ewart Brown is set to insist in the House of Assembly today.
Political insiders last night said Dr. Brown will attempt to justify the larger-than-normal Peugeot cars using a clause in the law governing the size of vehicles in Bermuda.
The in...
DATE: May 26, 2000
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names on two of the five stamps were spelt wrongly, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Now hundreds of thousands of 65 cent and five cent stamps, worth thousands of dollars, have been scrapped and the original issue -- delayed due to the error -- has been...
DATE: May 26, 2000
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A Bermuda-based doctor has been thrown in jail in Canada in a tug-of-love row, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
And Dr. Peter McLellan will appear in an Ontario court today to answer contempt of court charges.
Dr. McLellan -- an anaesthetist at the King...
DATE: May 23, 2000
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A $32 million bid to get international business to finance low-cost housing could lead to the law being broken, Shadow Finance Minister Grant Gibbons warned yesterday.
And he called on Government to come clean on details of the bid to win finance thr...
DATE: May 22, 2000
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Tough new rules to cut down on dog attacks are in the pipeline, Environment Minister Arthur Hodgson said yesterday.
And stricter controls and whopping fines are all part of a bill designed to better control dogs.
Mr. Hodgson said: "Since we've been i...
DATE: May 22, 2000
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