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Shadow Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell yesterday called for on-the-spot breathalyser testing to help get a grip on Bermuda's alarming road death toll.
Mr. Crockwell lost a relative and two acquaintances in April as the number of fatalities on the ...
DATE: May 21, 2008
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Whitney Institute Middle School will close this summer unless Government can come up with an emergency plan to renovate its termite-infested ageing building.
The school's trustees have written to the Ministry of Education to say they are not prepared...
DATE: May 20, 2008
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A rumour of a deadly snake on the loose on a beach has prompted a warning from Government.
According to an e-mail circulating the Island, a puff adder — described as bad-tempered and excitable and considered to be Africa's most dangerous snake — has ...
DATE: May 20, 2008
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Whitney Institute Middle School will close this summer, its board of trustees told the Ministry of Education today, The Royal Gazette understands.
Staff are said to be angry with the increasingly dilapidated state of the building and no longer consid...
DATE: May 19, 2008
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Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons has questioned proposals to change the way Bermuda's aided schools are run.
Dr. Gibbons told Friday's House of Assembly he had attended last week's public meeting at which the future of St. George's Preparatory...
DATE: May 19, 2008
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A 19-year-old man was jailed for a year after admitting having sex with a 13-year-old girl three times.
Danai Burns, of Mullet Bay Road, St. George's, was told his actions could cause devastating psychological damage to the victim when he was sentenc...
DATE: May 19, 2008
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Environment Minister El James has dismissed suggestions Caribbean vets heading for Bermuda could have "sub par" education.
The Minister made a statement in the House of Assembly on Friday to counter concerns from local vets over the inclusion of the ...
DATE: May 19, 2008
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A bipartisan parliamentary group is finally poised to be appointed to oversee the reform of education in Bermuda.
A motion tabled by Education Minister Randolph Horton for a joint select committee was approved in the House of Assembly last night. (FR...
DATE: May 17, 2008
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A 45-year-old woman was last night in intensive care in hospital after she was stabbed in an apartment above a shop.
Her attacker — who knows the victim — escaped on a motorcycle to spark a Police manhunt yesterday afternoon.
Officers say the woman w...
DATE: May 14, 2008
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FBI and Bermuda Police investigators have boarded the cruise ship Norwegian Dawn in Dockyard in Bermuda to investigate the death of a passenger who fell overboard while the ship was on its way to the Island.
Family members are fearing the worst for m...
DATE: May 14, 2008
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