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Multi-millionaire oil tycoon John Deuss is expected to fly off the Island tonight with Dutch Police to face questioning about suspected money laundering.
The 64-year-old appeared in court yesterday for the second time this week at an extradition hear...
DATE: Oct 19, 2006
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A campaigner against female genital mutilation described Bermuda High School students as ?fantastic? yesterday after they listened to her give a talk on the custom.
Salimata Badji Knight, herself a survivor of the practice, said she was impressed wit...
DATE: Oct 19, 2006
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Former Premier David Saul last night gave his backing to arrested oil tycoon John Deuss, who is due to appear in court today, for the second time this week.
Dr. Saul described the 64-year-old Dutch businessman ? wanted for questioning in his homeland...
DATE: Oct 18, 2006
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A memorial to a heroic Russian seaman who died saving the world from a nuclear catastrophe after an explosion on his submarine should be erected in Bermuda, according to many readers of The Royal Gazette.
Sergei Preminin lost his life after manually ...
DATE: Oct 17, 2006
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Millionaire oil tycoon and banker John Deuss was yesterday granted $10 million bail after his lawyer told a magistrate he would voluntarily travel with Police to the Netherlands for questioning about suspected money laundering.
Two Dutch detectives i...
DATE: Oct 17, 2006
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Wide-eyed and looking frailer than one might expect of a multi-millionaire tycoon who has wrangled with the Russians over oil and struck controversial trade deals with apartheid-era South Africa, John Deuss shuffled quietly into Magistrates? Court at...
DATE: Oct 17, 2006
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Bermuda College has been spending public money without having proper financial controls in place, according to a leaked report seen by .
Former College Board chairman Nalton Brangman, who wrote the report, claims in it that the publicly-funded colleg...
DATE: Oct 16, 2006
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Government has opted for an expensive "Cadillac hospital" in the Botanical Gardens which the Island may not even need, Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert claimed last night.
The United Bermuda Party MP said the controversial scheme to put a new $500 mil...
DATE: Oct 16, 2006
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A damning report which claims that Bermuda College president Charles Green enjoyed perks at taxpayers' expense without the approval of his board has been delivered to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), The Royal Gazette can reveal.
It is understood...
DATE: Oct 13, 2006
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Government Senator and former Bermuda College Board chairman Raymond Tannock last night refuted allegations that he granted perks to the college?s president without proper approval.
The PLP politician is understood to be implicated in a report presen...
DATE: Oct 13, 2006
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