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A former Premier has revealed how he plans to be buried at sea in a metal coffin to create an artificial coral reef which future generations of divers can visit.
Dr. David Saul - who ran the Island as leader of the United Bermuda Party from 1995 to 1...
DATE: Jun 01, 2006
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Businesses are being encouraged to close their doors for an hour on Friday to show support for a peaceful demonstration outside the House of Assembly.
The 12.15 p.m. rally, dubbed ?Lunch for Democracy? by organisers, is a protest aimed at MPs who fai...
DATE: Jun 01, 2006
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Demonstrators plan to march on the House of Assembly on Friday to protest at the failure of MPs to debate a bill which would have outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Organisers of the rally, which will take place at 12.15 p.m. in the...
DATE: May 31, 2006
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He arrived on the Island in a flurry of controversy just over two years ago as the second non-Bermudian President of Bermuda College.
Since then, Vietnam veteran Dr. Charles Green says he has been making quiet but steady progress to improve the educa...
DATE: May 29, 2006
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Supporters of Renee Webb's bill to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation told last night of their dismay that it was kicked out of Parliament.
Those watching the debate from the public gallery looked shocked as they filed out of the House of...
DATE: May 27, 2006
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MP Renee Webb last night declared the leadership of the country's two political parties the "weakest I have ever seen" after her bill to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation was thrown out of the House of Assembly.
The Government backben...
DATE: May 27, 2006
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Hundreds of hospital workers are to get a four percent pay rise after a deal brokered by union chiefs was formally signed yesterday morning.
The raise will be backdated from last October for about 400 trade and auxiliary staff at the King Edward VII ...
DATE: May 26, 2006
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Government plans to throw out a parliamentary motion urging it to consider establishing a Truth and Reconciliation Commission based on the one set up in South Africa after the end of apartheid.
Community Affairs Minister Dale Butler told The Royal Ga...
DATE: May 26, 2006
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The Education Minister has defended a decision not to renew the contract of an uncertified teacher working in two public primary schools.
Terry Lister said the Ministry of Education had already bent the rules for Bim Bademosi, a music teacher at Sout...
DATE: May 25, 2006
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A sea burial which resulted in the body of a mother-of-four being washed ashore was carried out correctly, says Government?s Chief Medical Officer.
Dr. John Cann said that although he could not clarify how or why Deborah Elizabeth Santucci Smith?s bo...
DATE: May 25, 2006
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