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Premier Ewart Brown has stamped on bizarre, untrue claims in Asian media that he has offered refuge to Thaksin Shinawatra, the exiled former prime minister of Thailand.
Newspapers in Thaksin's home country have been speculating where the billionaire,...
DATE: Nov 13, 2008
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Is breakfast the most important meal of the day? Students at Victor Scott Primary School certainly think so — their exam results have vastly improved after a year of eating regular morning meals.
The youngsters have been receiving breakfast each week...
DATE: Nov 13, 2008
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Elderly members of Port Royal Golf Club may not have to pay a $3,000 initiation fee when the revamped course reopens in 2009, Premier Ewart Brown has revealed.
He was asked at a public meeting whether the introduction of the one-off payment on top of...
DATE: Nov 12, 2008
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The chairman of Bermuda Educational Parents' Association has welcomed the Premier's decision to sack Education Minister Randy Horton last week.
Myron Piper, who founded his group earlier this year to give a voice to parents in the public school syste...
DATE: Nov 12, 2008
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Premier Ewart Brown took another swipe at the UK Foreign Affairs Committee during the first session of Parliament, claiming its report on the British Overseas Territories "jeopardised" their reputations.
Dr. Brown, who was critical of the report when...
DATE: Nov 10, 2008
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Government is likely to canvass public opinion on the prospect of free bus and ferry travel for all — with a PLP meeting hearing this week that not everyone is in favour.
Premier Ewart Brown, who is also Tourism and Transport Minister, was asked by a...
DATE: Nov 07, 2008
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It sounds like a match made in heaven — a groundbreaking and mutually beneficial partnership between the AME Church and Capital G Bank.
Thousands of AME members on the Island are being encouraged to join a new scheme and switch their financial affair...
DATE: Nov 07, 2008
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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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