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A hole in a wall the size of a 25 cents coin is all that is needed for a rat to squeeze through, while the gap only needs to be a size of a dime for a mouse.
Small holes left by cables and wires under the eaves or through walls are all that is requir...
DATE: Feb 25, 2006
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With growing concern that the world is facing an imminent influenza pandemic to match the three global pandemics of the last century, Health Minister Patrice Minors has warned that a virus with a typical 25 percent attack rate would affect 15,851 peo...
DATE: Feb 25, 2006
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A stretch of road has been labelled a “death trap” after Bermuda's second road fatality of 2006 left a 77-year-old man dead and a bus dangerously perched above a 50ft drop into the sea below.
A number seven service bus almost rolled down a steep clif...
DATE: Feb 25, 2006
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If international business was lured away from Bermuda the Island would struggle to survive on its other economic pillar ? tourism ? which has shrunken for most of the past two decades.
That is the result of research carried out by Bermuda College lec...
DATE: Feb 23, 2006
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A light fitting that crashed onto the foot of a worker at the new Berkeley Institute building was the incident that led to a construction expert being fired from the $120 million project after he?d catalogued hundreds of alleged safety deficiencies a...
DATE: Feb 23, 2006
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The incident at the centre of Mr. Martel?s dismissal from the employment of Somers Construction was a light fitting falling in the atrium of the new Berkeley Institute after it was knocked by scaffolding.
Explaining the circumstances, Mr. Martel said...
DATE: Feb 23, 2006
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Explaining his motivation for making his claims public, Gabriel Martel said he could not bare ?the thought of somebody being hurt because a whole bunch of people were sitting on their thumbs is insane to me. That?s not what we do in construction.?
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DATE: Feb 23, 2006
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The credibility of claims regarding extensive faulty workmanship at the new Berkeley Institute have been called into question by the construction firm that employed alleged ?whistleblower? Gabriel Martel.
Five days after the story broke on the front ...
DATE: Feb 22, 2006
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Bermuda's historic place in the slave trade has been acknowledged by UNESCO with the world body including the Island's African Diaspora Heritage Trail as part of its Slave Route Project.
It comes in the run up to the second Heritage Trail Conference ...
DATE: Feb 22, 2006
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Oral piercings and the health dangers they pose ? such as chipped teeth, receding gums, bad breath and even the possibility of death in extreme circumstances ? will be discussed by students at an open forum later this week.
The message will be delive...
DATE: Feb 21, 2006
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