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It would cost $500,000 to separate the electricity supply that serves both Coco Reef resort and the Bermuda College.
As a row over who is paying the hotel?s electricity bill rumbled on among senators, it was revealed utility company Belco had estimat...
DATE: Dec 08, 2005
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A new law that will see demerit points issued to law-breaking motorists, leading to a total driving ban if they collect 12 or more, has been given the seal of approval by Senators.
But there has also been renewed calls for greater education of the pu...
DATE: Dec 08, 2005
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A hurricane more than 1,000 miles to the east of Bermuda is partially to blame for the substantial erosion of sand at Elbow Beach.
Hurricane Epsilon has been rattling around in the middle of the North Atlantic since the end of last month, and althoug...
DATE: Dec 07, 2005
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A quarter of a century after the late Beatle John Lennon visited Bermuda on what was to be his last summer holiday, plans are underway to create a permanent display of ?Double Fantasy? freesias in the Botanical Gardens where he found inspiration for ...
DATE: Dec 06, 2005
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NASA would be open to an approach by Bermuda for money to fund a proposed $8 million project to turn the space agency?s former tracking station at St. David?s into a national park and nature reserve.
Whether or not the Government would be successful ...
DATE: Dec 06, 2005
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Bermuda?s main cement supply will continue to be run by the Bermuda Cement Company for a further year following talks between the company and the Government. The Bermuda Cement Company was preparing to shut down its operation at Dockyard at the end o...
DATE: Dec 05, 2005
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A unique floating book shop will sail into Hamilton dock three days before Christmas carrying tens of thousands of books.
The onboard bookstore is something akin to a sizeable Barnes & Noble retail outlet offering 6,000 book titles covering a variety...
DATE: Dec 05, 2005
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There?s definitely something out of this world about a plan to turn the abandoned NASA tracking station at St. David?s into a national park and nature reserve ? and that?s the apparent assumption that the American space agency will be happy to hand o...
DATE: Dec 05, 2005
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Classic motorbikes and a few others that were also impressive beasts of the road but not quite so vintage, created a travelling cavalcade of colour and shiny chrome during a tour of the Island yesterday to support disadvantaged children.
Before they ...
DATE: Dec 05, 2005
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Smokers may soon be banned from lighting up in any enclosed public space in Bermuda, be that a bar, restaurant, hotel, workplace, or even a company car.
A proposed blanket ban has moved a step closer and will put Bermuda on to a growing list of of pl...
DATE: Dec 05, 2005
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