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About 5,000 homes and businesses in Bermuda were expected to be without power this morning — after Belco restored electricity to many thousands more yesterday.
Hurricane Igor left 28,700 properties — more than 80 percent of Belco's 35,000 customers —...
DATE: Sep 21, 2010
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Shadow Attorney General Trevor Moniz wants to know what has happened to plans for an independent Law Reform Commission — but Government is staying silent.
MPs passed the Law Reform Commission Act in June last year, when Junior Justice Minister Michae...
DATE: Sep 17, 2010
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Government won't reveal any details of its planned clean-up of Morgan's Point — or say where the cash will come from if the US refuses fresh requests for it to pay for the costly work.
The majority of the 240-acre former US Naval Annex was handed ove...
DATE: Sep 17, 2010
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Cabinet has approved preliminary designs for a golf course at Morgan's Point — by a landscape architect described by Government earlier this year as not enough of "a household name".
A Government spokesman told The Royal Gazette in February it was de...
DATE: Sep 16, 2010
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Bermuda National Trust executive director Jennifer Gray has welcomed the signing of the land swap deal between Government and Southlands Ltd.
The agreement was completed on Monday, paving the way for the greenfield Southlands estate in Warwick to bec...
DATE: Sep 16, 2010
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A championship golf course has long been proposed for Morgan's Point and several names have been linked to the plans.
Golfing legend Jack Nicklaus was part of a controversial $250 million bid to transform the former base land into a booming tourist r...
DATE: Sep 16, 2010
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Shadow Tourism Minister Michael Dunkley claimed yesterday that Government's handling of the Southlands land swap deal was the "worst example of public planning".
He said the Opposition was pleased Southlands would be preserved as a national park but ...
DATE: Sep 15, 2010
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A controversial special development order (SDO) for a five-star resort at Southlands "now falls away" thanks to the land swap deal signed this week.
Cabinet secretary Marc Telemaque told The Royal Gazette that the estate in Warwick — described by the...
DATE: Sep 15, 2010
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A 26-year-old man who harboured Facebook fugitive Alvone Maybury was jailed for three months yesterday.
Kim Knights, who hid Maybury in the wooden shed where he lives on Secret Lane, Pembroke, admitted the offence in Magistrates' Court, along with at...
DATE: Sep 14, 2010
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Government and Southlands Ltd. buried the hatchet yesterday and signed a land swap deal which will allow a $2 billion tourism resort to be built at Morgan’s Point over the next 20 years.
The agreement — which comes almost seven months after the two s...
DATE: Sep 14, 2010
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