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Transport Minister Ewart Brown has warned taxi drivers they have just over a week to get a mandatory satellite navigation system installed in their cabs.
The Deputy Premier admitted at a meeting on Tuesday night that there continued to be ?service is...
DATE: Jul 27, 2006
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A man was being treated in hospital for lacerations last night after what Police say could have been a gang-related street fight.
The disturbance in Devonshire comes just two days after a 19-year-old man was critically injured in the same parish and ...
DATE: Jul 26, 2006
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A major overhaul of Bermuda?s buses is planned including the recruitment of 20 new drivers and passengers no longer having to wait more than 15 minutes for a bus on four key routes.
Transport Minister Dr. Ewart Brown told a meeting in St. David?s las...
DATE: Jul 26, 2006
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Deserving students picked up scholarships worth thousands of dollars from the Government at a ceremony yesterday.
Six young people who plan to become teachers were each given awards of $10,000 a year for up to three years by Education Minister Terry ...
DATE: Jul 26, 2006
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An angler who narrowly escaped death after he was speared by a giant blue marlin and knocked out of his boat was still recovering in hospital last night ? but his father said he expected him to return to sea as soon as he could.
Ian Card was left wit...
DATE: Jul 25, 2006
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Two children escaped uninjured after being thrown from their inflatable boat near the Fairmont Hamilton Princess at the weekend.
The boy and girl went overboard after their vessel hit a wave at about 10.45 a.m. on Saturday. Dan Jacobs, organiser of t...
DATE: Jul 24, 2006
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An Opposition MP last night called for gangs to be outlawed in Bermuda with the introduction of tough new legislation.
Shadow Public Safety Minister Maxwell Burgess said the Island needed to declare war on gangs after the shooting of a teenager in Pa...
DATE: Jul 24, 2006
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Premier Alex Scott is to hold an emergency meeting with the Public Safety Minister Randy Horton and Governor Sir John Vereker this morning in the wake of the murder of a teenager at the weekend.
Mr. Scott told that he knew the family of the 18-year-o...
DATE: Jul 24, 2006
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Tributes were paid last night to former Deputy Premier John Irving Pearman who died on Saturday morning, aged 79.
Acting Opposition Leader Michael Dunkley described the retired politician as "one of the bedrocks of the United Bermuda Party" in the 19...
DATE: Jul 24, 2006
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An angler was almost killed when a giant bill fish leapt from the sea, speared his chest and knocked him off his boat in a freak accident at the weekend.
Ian Card, from Somerset, was impaled by the blue marlin and forced overboard during an internati...
DATE: Jul 24, 2006
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