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An accountant from Bermuda has helped to rebuild homes in New Orleans for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Sue Kovacs, 33, of Hamilton Parish, travelled to Louisiana alone earlier this month to work on a housing project run by charity Habitat for Humani...
DATE: Feb 21, 2006
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Television bosses were last night trying to find out why cable viewers in Bermuda were unable to access the BBC World channel over the weekend.
Anecdotal reports suggested that the station was unavailable on both Saturday and yesterday to viewers. Th...
DATE: Feb 20, 2006
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Volunteers spent hours picking up litter from Devon Spring Road at the weekend.
Members of Keep Bermuda Beautiful (KBB) met on Saturday morning to carry out the clean-up.
They collected 1.04 tons of trash from the roadside and the bushes, which was l...
DATE: Feb 20, 2006
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A charity claims to be carrying out the first-ever study of the state of homes in Bermuda.
The Island's branch of Habitat for Humanity says Government has never properly assessed the condition of housing so it is conducting its own comprehensive stud...
DATE: Feb 20, 2006
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To the casual observer, there might seem nothing unusual about cruise ship passenger Lewis Dunkerley?s black and grey tweed jacket.
As the 71-year-old embarked from the Black Prince in Hamilton?s Front Street last Wedesday morning, no one could have ...
DATE: Feb 20, 2006
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Government pledged an extra $25 million to tackle Bermuda?s housing crisis in yesterday?s Budget ? but gave little detail of what the cash would be spent on.
The money in the Government?s Capital Expenditure Plan ? which will be followed in 2007 with...
DATE: Feb 18, 2006
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Government has drastically cut the amount it plans to spend on major building works in the coming year.
Finance Minister Paula Cox revealed in yesterday?s Budget that $54 million had been slashed from the original estimate of $180 million for capital...
DATE: Feb 18, 2006
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A Supreme Court judge yesterday launched a scathing attack on what she termed Bermuda's inability to successfully treat and rehabilitate drug-addicted criminals.
Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons suggested offenders' human rights were being breached ...
DATE: Feb 17, 2006
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An ?underachieving? teenager who had sex with a 12-year-old girl in her mother?s bedroom was jailed for three months yesterday.
Deshun Dill, 18, of Farmstead Lane, Sandys, was given an 18-month prison term, with 15 months of it suspended, and a two-y...
DATE: Feb 17, 2006
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A grief-stricken father is still waiting to find out how his taxi driver son died ? almost two weeks after the 59-year-old was found in his cab.
Roland Belboda told he was frustrated that Police were taking so long to provide him with information abo...
DATE: Feb 16, 2006
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