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Thousands of people made the most of the sunshine to walk more than five miles and enjoy some of the most scenic and often hard to visit places around Devonshire and Paget yesterday.
They were joined by Governor Sir John Vereker and Lady Vereker as w...
DATE: Apr 10, 2006
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Where has the unparalleled, world-class service that once personified Bermuda's tourism and hospitality gone?
It has become a common lament over the past few years and one former hotel worker Ed Ball, president of Bermuda Public Services Union, has n...
DATE: Apr 10, 2006
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Fake $100 bills have been found circulating in the East End of the Island, leading Police to issue a warning to the public to be on their guard when they receive a high value Bermudian bank note.
A number of counterfeit notes have come to light in St...
DATE: Apr 10, 2006
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Top-ranking civil servants and judges have received pay rises amounting to tens of thousands of dollars.
The Government has not released details of how the pay structure has been upgraded, but has learned those already earning more than $115,000 a ye...
DATE: Apr 08, 2006
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Having transformed the face of European air travel with his budget airline easyJet, billionaire entrepreneur Stelios Haiji-Ioannou told an audience in Bermuda a similar venture linking Caribbean destinations could work if the right-sized aircraft can...
DATE: Apr 07, 2006
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The squeeze to provide adequate housing for hotel workers in Bermuda could be addressed by bringing an empty cruise ship to the Island and allowing staff to stay in the cabins.
That?s one idea mooted by a Bermuda hotelier as the challenges of operati...
DATE: Apr 07, 2006
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The gymnasiums at the new Berkeley Institute and CedarBridge Academy will be used as emergency shelters in the event of a hurricane striking Bermuda.
The two schools have been earmarked as primary shelters should the Island take a severe pounding fro...
DATE: Apr 07, 2006
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A month after Bermuda's Hollywood star Michael Douglas revealed Hilton-branded fractional vacation ownership is coming to South Shore's Ariel Sands resort ? the growing trend for the up-market tourism product has been discussed by industry experts at...
DATE: Apr 06, 2006
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High airfares to Bermuda can be partially pinned on the success of the Island?s international business sector presenting a skewed picture to airline companies who see high airfares readily being paid for by frequent business travellers.
The complexit...
DATE: Apr 06, 2006
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Changes to the Gibraltar constitution have added a few freedoms beyond those currently enjoyed by Bermuda?s elected politicians to shape the territory?s destiny.
But on the whole the exercise to update Gibraltar?s 1969 constitution generally brings i...
DATE: Apr 03, 2006
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