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A young woman who brought a pair of sneakers to Bermuda that were found to be concealing heroin with a street value of $51,840, has told a jury how she agreed to bring the shoes back to the Island for an acquaintance.
Shaunnah Melanie Dill was only 1...
DATE: Mar 01, 2006
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Bermuda?s constitution may appear as something for other overseas territories to aspire to but it is not without its faults, Premier Alex Scott has told Cayman Islands? politicians.
Limitations on the amount of freedom Bermuda has to make its own dec...
DATE: Mar 01, 2006
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Derelict and vacant properties will be commandeered by the Government and, if necessary, renovated so that they can be used by people in need of affordable housing.
And the former St. George?s senior training school site is on the list for Housing Mi...
DATE: Mar 01, 2006
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The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has offered to become involved in a task force formed to cull feral chickens as a preventative measure against the spread of bird flu.
And it has urged poultry farmers and other chicken owners to p...
DATE: Mar 01, 2006
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Heroin with a street value of $51,840 was found by Custom officers hidden inside a pair of sneakers in a teenager?s hand luggage after she disembarked from a New York flight, a jury heard yesterday.
The drugs were discovered in two packages concealed...
DATE: Feb 28, 2006
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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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