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The veil of secrecy covering City Hall was partially lifted yesterday — but only six people bothered to take a peek at what was underneath.
The Corporation of Hamilton held what is believed to be the first open board meeting in its 214-year history, ...
DATE: Nov 05, 2009
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The Corporation of Hamilton has revised its plans for a waterfront development — slashing the budget from a quarter of billion dollars to less than $200 million.
Mayor Charles Gosling told the first open board meeting at City Hall yesterday that the ...
DATE: Nov 05, 2009
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It has become a much-loved tradition over the last decade and a half — but this New Year's Eve it looks unlikely that a giant Bermuda onion will be dropped in St. George's town square.
Instead, a huge free celebration featuring live music, family ent...
DATE: Nov 05, 2009
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A construction boss claims a leaky Works and Engineering pipe has caused a landslide on his building site.
Gladstone Headlam, of Sunrise Construction, said the pipe was overflowing onto his property on Palm Valley Road, Southampton, delaying work and...
DATE: Nov 03, 2009
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Chief Justice Richard Ground has spoken of the tough decisions judges have to make in the wake of a controversial ruling in a death by drunk driving case.
Supreme Court judge Charles-Etta Simmons ordered on October 26 that Roger Bowen, 26, of Sandys,...
DATE: Nov 03, 2009
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The van driver cleared on a legal technicality of killing bartender Larry Thomas was previously let off another drink driving charge — after police failed to show up for his trial.
Roger Bowen, 26, was involved in a crash in the early hours of Februa...
DATE: Nov 02, 2009
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The US Navy has been accused of listening in to the telephone calls of Bermuda Government officials during negotiations over the baselands 15 years ago.
Author Don Grearson makes the claim in his new book 'USS Bermuda' in which he says fears about "w...
DATE: Oct 31, 2009
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The US has "closed the file" on its former baselands in Bermuda and is highly unlikely to ever reopen discussions on the clean-up of the land, according to the author of a new book.
Don Grearson, whose 450-page 'USS Bermuda — The Rise and Fall of an ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2009
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Sacked Summerhaven administrator Ianthia Wade is still fighting to get her job back almost 18 months after she was fired, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The widow of former Progressive Labour Party leader Frederick Wade reported her June 2008 dismissa...
DATE: Oct 30, 2009
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A residential facility for the physically challenged is to undergo an independent review — a year after Police were called in to investigate irregular accounts.
Summerhaven in Smith's — which is part funded with almost half a million dollars of publi...
DATE: Oct 29, 2009
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