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An expert on gang violence who grew up in the Bermudian neighbourhood where teenager Jason Lightbourne was shot dead last month warned yesterday that the Island needed to act now to stamp out a growing thug mentality.
Dennis Rahiim Watson, chairman o...
DATE: Aug 16, 2006
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It may be the hot topic of the moment but for Michael Ray, the outgoing president of Bermuda Taxi Association (BTA), the issue of GPS is a dead one.
He once led the Island?s cabbies in revolt against Tourism and Transport Minister Ewart Brown?s propo...
DATE: Aug 14, 2006
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The president of the Island?s largest taxi dispatching firm has admitted that more than half his company?s drivers are still not using a new mandatory satellite navigation system.
Michael Ray, president and a shareholder in BTA (Dispatching), reveale...
DATE: Aug 14, 2006
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Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert has criticised the Premier for making remarks about slavery during a radio interview on independence.
Mr. Furbert claimed the Premier made the comments on Friday on VSB Radio in response to a press conference he had he...
DATE: Aug 14, 2006
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A promised pay rise for hospital staff is to be delayed by a month, health chiefs admitted this week.
Workers at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEMH) were due to get a four per cent pay increase in this month?s pay packet, backdated to October.
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DATE: Aug 12, 2006
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Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert yesterday called on Government to hold an immediate referendum on Independence ? and revealed that if one was held he would vote against Bermuda going it alone.
Mr. Furbert called a press conference at United Bermuda P...
DATE: Aug 11, 2006
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The widow of murdered missionary Colin Lee is backing a charity appeal to help African children.
The organisation World Vision will be at the Washington Mall in Hamilton from 10.30 a.m to 3 p.m. today encouraging passers-by to sponsor a Ugandan child...
DATE: Aug 10, 2006
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A Magistrate should not have awarded costs to a Policeman who had an assault case against him thrown out of court, a lawyer argued yesterday.
Crown counsel Carrington Mahoney told Supreme Court that Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner did not give rea...
DATE: Aug 09, 2006
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A lightning strike destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of court equipment during a ferocious storm.
Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons revealed in Supreme Court One yesterday that the strike on Tuesday, July 25 may have taken out as much ...
DATE: Aug 09, 2006
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Taxi drivers who have failed to install a new mandatory satellite navigation system in their cabs are being ordered to stop taking fares.
Cabbies had until midnight on Sunday to get the GPS tracking device put in their taxis ? and those that haven?t ...
DATE: Aug 08, 2006
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