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In an effort to soften the financial hardship faced by taxi drivers fitting $2,000 GPS systems to their vehicles, Government is scrapping import duty on equipment being brought to the Island.
The GPS system is now a mandatory requirement for taxi ope...
DATE: Feb 18, 2006
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An independent auditor who has reportedly catalogued dozens of safety failings at the yet to open new Berkeley Institute should be brought back to the Island to prove his published concerns are true.
That?s the view of Shadow Works and Engineering Mi...
DATE: Feb 18, 2006
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A new research vessel for the the Bermuda Biological Station for Research is expected to arrive on the Island within the next two months to replace the which is now in Norfolk, Virginia and is unlikely to return to the Island.
The has been retired fr...
DATE: Feb 17, 2006
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The new developer of the former Club Med resort in St. George's was nowhere to be seen as the Deputy Premier . Ewart Brown visited the hotel site to announce the latest chapter in efforts to have it redeveloped.
For most the of the past 20 years the ...
DATE: Feb 17, 2006
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Tributes have been paid to a yacht captain who died after helping guide his 43-foot yacht and crew through a string of near disasters in the North Atlantic before reaching Bermuda.
Father-of-two Richard Brignoli had not been in good health before dep...
DATE: Feb 17, 2006
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Tourism Minister Ewart Brown has declined to comment further on the decision by his department to link up with Internet giant Expedia to be the main hotel booking engine for its tourism website.
A number of hoteliers and Shadow Tourism Minister David...
DATE: Feb 16, 2006
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Tourism industry insiders are tipping the identity of the new developer of the former Club Med resort at St. George's as a Californian real estate developer called Jack Avedikian.
But confirmation will only come at 1 p.m. today when Deputy Premier Ew...
DATE: Feb 16, 2006
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Timeshare members who holiday in St. George?s rarely decide to swap their Bermuda weeks for a vacation elsewhere in the world, according to management of The St. George?s Club.
But now they won?t have to give up their holiday on the Island in order t...
DATE: Feb 15, 2006
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In the final quarter of the 2005 financial year the Bank of Bermuda Foundation has made $3.2 million in donations to 11 local charities.
In the past few days the Foundation has made its biggest single donation to the Bermuda Housing Trust, a pledge o...
DATE: Feb 15, 2006
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Hungry and desperate Wyndham Hotel workers believe they will be re-called to start work in the middle of March without receiving a single cent of the money they had expected to tide them over during their unexpected winter lay-off.
One disillusioned ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2006
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