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The family of a 73-year-old grandfather who was killed after his car ploughed into a tree on Saturday morning have paid tribute to him.
Lloyd Grimes, from Pembroke, had to be cut free from his vehicle by firefighters after it overturned on Roberts Av...
DATE: May 15, 2006
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Corporation of Hamilton workers downed tools for more than three hours yesterday morning in a row over what one employee termed "dictatorial" management.
Staff staged the sit-down at the Corporation's Dundonald Street yard after arriving for work at ...
DATE: May 13, 2006
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The Government has rejected a code of conduct aimed at preventing politicians from stirring up racial hatred during election campaigns.
The proposed set of standards for parliamentarians was put forward by the United Bermuda Party (UBP) after losing ...
DATE: May 12, 2006
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A US politician who sparked a row in Bermuda when he was refused permission to speak at a senior school has won a landslide victory to become mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
Cory Booker, who came to the Island in November 2004 to help the United Bermuda...
DATE: May 12, 2006
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Teachers at two schools have called a halt to a work to rule, can reveal.
Staff at Spice Valley Middle School in Warwick will officially return to normal working practices today after they took action over warning letters being placed on their person...
DATE: May 08, 2006
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A school which was targeted by an intruder earlier this year is to pilot a new plan for dealing with crises, Education Minister Terry Lister announced on Friday.
Mr. Lister told the House of Assembly that Spice Valley Middle School in Warwick was wor...
DATE: May 08, 2006
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The leader of Bermuda?s teaching union is calling for the cane to be used on unruly students in Bermuda?s public schools.
Mike Charles, general secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT), said he advocated a return to corporal punishment being ...
DATE: May 08, 2006
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Race activist Dr. Eva Hodgson last night challenged the United Bermuda Party (UBP) to publicly acknowledge that white people created segregation and were still benefiting economically from its long-term effects.
The founder of the National Associatio...
DATE: May 04, 2006
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Two drug addicts who stole to fuel their addictions were given suspended jail terms by a judge on Monday.
Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons wished Norman Sonny Bell and Dwayne Gino Gilbert luck at Supreme Court One and told them: ?I know it?s a tough...
DATE: May 03, 2006
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Reuben Christopher Alias, one of only four black Bermudians to serve in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War, has died, aged 84.
Mr. Alias ? who was also the first black to be appointed a clerk to Magistrates? Court and assistant to ...
DATE: May 03, 2006
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