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Cup Match spectators who slid across the pitch when play was cancelled due to rain behaved abominably, according to Government senator Marc Bean.
He told the Upper Chamber he watched in horror on Thursday afternoon as tourists and Bermudians alike de...
DATE: Aug 03, 2010
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Government could have been better prepared for the worst three-month drought to affect the Island in almost 50 years, according to a local water engineer.
Ian Saunders has analysed data for monthly rainfall for the last 47 years which shows that Apri...
DATE: Aug 02, 2010
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The Ministry of Works and Engineering will take over responsibility for Morgan's Point tomorrow — but it is staying tight-lipped about whether that means a multimillion dollar clean-up is due to begin.
Bermuda Land Development Company (BLDC) currentl...
DATE: Jul 31, 2010
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Civil service head Kenneth Dill has called on Public Accounts Committee chairman Bob Richards to withdraw a report which criticises the Department of Tourism for its dealings with American firm GlobalHue.
Major Dill wrote to the Shadow Finance Minist...
DATE: Jul 28, 2010
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A Bermudian pastor who has been spreading the word of God in England for five years has returned to the Island with a group of his parishioners.
Commuters travelling into Hamilton earlier this month may have seen Al Lambert, his wife Mary-Jane and th...
DATE: Jul 27, 2010
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A German news crew visited Bermuda to interview the Uighurs at the weekend — and were yesterday due to meet Premier Ewart Brown.
The Washington-based team from ZDF German Television filmed Khalil Mamut, Abdulla Abdulqadir, Ablikim Turahun and Salahid...
DATE: Jul 27, 2010
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International transparency campaigners have praised Bermuda for doing the right thing and finally passing a freedom of information law.
Commentators who have followed the Island's path toward a more open, accountable government said they were pleased...
DATE: Jul 26, 2010
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Hundreds of submissions on Government's Public Access to Information (PATI) bill are available to view at the Cabinet Office for the first time.
Premier Ewart Brown told the House of Assembly: "It is important to this Government to share with the ver...
DATE: Jul 26, 2010
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Police swooped on a Pembroke neighbourhood yesterday afternoon after a report that fugitive Alvone Maybury was hiding out there.
But a search of homes on The Glebe Road lasting almost four-and-a-half hours proved fruitless and a team of armed officer...
DATE: Jul 24, 2010
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Bermuda's citizens were last night given the right to know as MPs unanimously approved a long-promised freedom of information bill.
The Island joined scores of democracies around the world which have laws allowing taxpayers access to records held by ...
DATE: Jul 24, 2010
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