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A ground-breaking bid to get international business to help ease the housing crisis in Bermuda is on the cards.
And it is possible the business world -- whose success has contributed to the scarcity and cost of rental homes -- could be asked to chip ...
DATE: Aug 23, 1999
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Better communication is the key to avoiding internal warfare in Bermuda's part-time army, according to a special Defence Board report into a row at the Bermuda Regiment.
The Regiment was earlier this year rocked by a row over the future direction of ...
DATE: Aug 23, 1999
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An attack on the independence of non-party senators is an assault on democracy, Opposition leader Pamela Gordon said yesterday.
Ms Gordon claimed: "What we have is a Government where this new Bermuda is not a democracy, but totalitarianism.
"They're ...
DATE: Aug 20, 1999
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Bermuda-based Jardine Matheson.
Aisha bested more than 60 other applicants to win the annual Jardine Scholarship -- which works out at $10,000 a year for three years.
Jardine president Harry Wilken said: "She was a very impressive candidate -- we are...
DATE: Aug 20, 1999
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Cedar berries are set to ripen next month -- and Government has kicked off a fresh bid to plant the idea of sowing a seed in people's minds.
Environment Minister Arthur Hodgson said his Millennium project to boost the number of cedar trees would reap...
DATE: Aug 19, 1999
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Senators yesterday crossed swords over a pair of hard-hitting reports into handling of public cash under the previous United Bermuda Party administration.
And Government Senate leader Milton Scott said the reports by the official Auditor diminished U...
DATE: Aug 19, 1999
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Independent Sen. Jeanette Cannonier is set to appeal to Governor Thorold Masefield over a blunder which led to a controversial Act to allow funeral limousines in Bermuda.
And it is expected that she will lodge an official protest over a ruling by Sen...
DATE: Aug 18, 1999
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Killer designer drug Ecstasy has been netted in a massive Police raid on a nightclub.
Tablets of the drug -- responsible for a rash of deaths across the UK and US -- was part of the haul in a drugs squad raid on the controversial Escape Night Club in...
DATE: Aug 17, 1999
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to an Independent senator accidentally voting in favour of a controversial funeral home limousine service Act.
The Act would have been blocked six to five if Sen. Jeanette Cannonier had not got it wrong.
The Royal Gazette understands from political s...
DATE: Aug 14, 1999
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same unions as the rank-and-file could be in the offing.
Home Affairs and Public Safety Minister Paula Cox did not rule out a redrawing of the Act after it was knocked back by Senate.
She said: "It's obviously disappointing -- but it's out of my hand...
DATE: Aug 14, 1999
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