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Government is still locked in negotiations over the Morgan's Point/Southlands land swap but is edging closer towards a deal being struck, Premier Ewart Brown said last night.
He told members of the public in Southampton that a meeting was planned tod...
DATE: Nov 06, 2008
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Tens of thousands of volunteers across America knocked on doors in a bid to get Barack Obama into the White House — and there were plenty of Bermudians among them.
From Islanders who have lived in the States for decades, to those who travelled there ...
DATE: Nov 05, 2008
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Barack Obama supporters in Bermuda were euphoric last night after America voted its first black president into the White House.
The historic win by the Democratic Senator even managed to unite the heads of the Island's two political parties, with bot...
DATE: Nov 05, 2008
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The Corporation of Hamilton has recommended to Government that every adult living in Hamilton be allowed to vote in City elections.
The elected members of the municipality also want to do away with aldermen, give the Mayor less power and get paid for...
DATE: Nov 04, 2008
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Education Minister Randy Horton yesterday defended the spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars on overseas consultants, insisting they were needed to help transform public schools.
Mr. Horton told The Royal Gazette: "These are people who have ac...
DATE: Nov 01, 2008
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Frustrated trade unionists have written to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) asking it to intervene with Government to ensure they are consulted on the overhaul of the public education system.
Anthony Wolffe, president of Bermuda Trades Uni...
DATE: Oct 30, 2008
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Government will attempt next month to extend a protection order banning two men from the home of an elderly woman they allegedly abused.
An interim order preventing the men from going to 75-year-old 'Miss C's' home was issued on September 30, after C...
DATE: Oct 29, 2008
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Citizens making complaints to the Human Rights Commission are being urged to settle their disputes by mediation rather than a lengthy investigation.
HRC chairman Venous Memari said the commission — which receives about 650 queries a year, of which on...
DATE: Oct 29, 2008
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PLP Ministers yesterday spoke out in support of their candidate for the forthcoming by-election in Southampton West Central.
Senator Marc Bean, Junior Minister for Tourism, Transport, Environment and Sport, will run against the Opposition's Charlie S...
DATE: Oct 28, 2008
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Sir John Swan last night urged "arrogant" Bermudians to stop arguing about race and unite to counter the effects of the world economic crisis on the Island.
The former Premier told an audience at Pembroke Sunday School: "We need to recognise that we ...
DATE: Oct 28, 2008
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