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Parliament could debate the UK's rewrite of relations with its colonies as early as this week.
For Premier Jennifer Smith on Friday gave MPs notice she intended to have a Parliamentary debate on the subject.
The move comes more than two months after ...
DATE: May 26, 1999
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promised to try and set up the scheme by the January 2000 deadline, Finance Minister Eugene Cox said yesterday.
And Pension Commission chairman Roger Titterton said the first orders of business would be education on the pension plan and talks about s...
DATE: May 21, 1999
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conditions, Public Safety Minister Paula Cox vowed yesterday.
But she pledged to implement the recommendations of an arbitration hearing -- even if it goes beyond the Government deal currently on the table.
Ms Cox -- due this morning to kick off a de...
DATE: May 21, 1999
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Police chief Jean Jacques Lemay and the Police Association yesterday joined forces to plead sick-out officers to get back on the beat.
Mr. Lemay said: "I would appeal to these officers to discontinue the action which appears to be occurring.
"I appea...
DATE: May 21, 1999
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The UK Government should allow Bermudians to accept UK citizenship -- as well as reject it, Premier Jennifer Smith said yesterday.
But Opposition leader Pamela Gordon said she was "shocked'' at the lack of public consultation on the UK Government's W...
DATE: May 21, 1999
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Bermuda's smallest political party has called for action to stop the exploitation of workers from developing countries.
National Liberal Party spokesman Graeme Outerbridge said he had evidence people from the Phillipines and elsewhere were being lure...
DATE: May 17, 1999
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A clampdown on riders who do not strap up their helmets should be launched, National Liberal Party chairman Charles Jeffers said yesterday.
And he called for a Police campaign leaflet blitz to promote safe driving and riding -- especially the need to...
DATE: May 14, 1999
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Phone company bosses have complained to Government over plans to change the law governing telecommunications, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
It is understood lawyers acting for the Bermuda Telephone Company (BTC) fired off a letter attacking some of t...
DATE: May 14, 1999
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Money spent on a Government TV show looks to have gone straight down the drain.
But Government spin doctors involved in the aborted broadcast were slow in revealing what was likely to happen to the axed broadcast.
Opposition leader Pamela Gordon mean...
DATE: May 14, 1999
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on work permits.
And he said the Island's international business got a smooth passage -- while local firms looking to employ overseas expertise suffered a rough time.
But yesterday Immigration Minister Paula Cox denied the claims and insisted all wor...
DATE: May 13, 1999
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