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The latest plan for Hamilton's waterfront has been massively scaled down from a $1 billion vision unveiled four years ago.
A public meeting last night heard that the new "preferred concept plan" would cost between $150 to $160 million and would revol...
DATE: Jun 08, 2010
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The media has today signed and adopted a
DATE: Jun 08, 2010
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Jeff Sousa stepped down as UBP chairman yesterday in order to try to become the party's election candidate for Warwick West.
Mr. Sousa is one of three approved candidates seeking adoption by the local branch of the United Bermuda Party; the others ar...
DATE: Jun 05, 2010
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Opposition MPs claim they have not had enough notice to debate two tough new bills aimed at tackling gun crime today.
But Attorney General Kim Wilson insisted last night: "We are going through extraordinary times and therefore we have to make haste."...
DATE: Jun 04, 2010
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Blue-collar jobs should be "a choice, not an inevitability" for young black Bermudian males, Labour Minister David Burch told the Senate yesterday.
He said there was a dearth of local black men in the "high echelons of the business world" and studies...
DATE: Jun 03, 2010
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Bad weather has resulted in the Causeway being closed three times this year already, compared to just once in both 2008 and 2009.
But the decision is never taken lightly, Public Safety Minister David Burch insisted in the Senate yesterday.
Announcing...
DATE: Jun 03, 2010
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A Westgate prisoner who attacked another inmate over a CD player was sentenced to another nine months in jail yesterday.
Rashad Cooper left Jonathan Darrell with a three-inch laceration to the back of his head after the assault at the Westgate Transi...
DATE: Jun 02, 2010
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Government appears to have dropped its controversial multimillion dollar plan to buy the Swan Building in Hamilton.
The Royal Gazette revealed in December that a secret deal to purchase the Victoria Street property for $24.5 million was being hammere...
DATE: Jun 02, 2010
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A 22-year-old man has been given a suspended prison sentence for possessing a bladed article.
Kershon Burt was found guilty of the offence, which happened in December 2007, after a Magistrates' Court trial in January.
No details of the crime were giv...
DATE: Jun 02, 2010
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Opposition MP John Barritt has again demanded to know why Government has failed to answer parliamentary questions about its municipalities review.
Responses were due on February 19 to three written queries posed by Mr. Barritt on February 10 — but th...
DATE: Jun 01, 2010
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