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An energy company planning a new coal-fired power station in the UK successfully pressed the government into dropping carbon emission conditions, according to evidence uncovered by green campaigners earlier this year.
Using the Freedom of Information...
DATE: Mar 17, 2008
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This Thursday, The Royal Gazette is inviting you to dig something yellow out of your wardrobe and let the sunshine in for Wear Yellow Day.
As part of Sunshine Week, this newspaper's A Right To Know: Giving People Power campaign wants Bermuda to bask ...
DATE: Mar 17, 2008
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Thousands of driving tests were cancelled in the UK earlier last month after transport department staff went on strike.
The reason for the industrial action? Comparatively low pay among a mostly-female workforce in a Government department.
How did th...
DATE: Mar 17, 2008
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Home Affairs Minister David Burch yesterday attacked parents who expect Government to take responsibility for problems caused by children born following "moments of passion".
Sen. Burch said it was impossible for the prison service to single-handedly...
DATE: Mar 15, 2008
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Progressive Labour Party Senator Wayne Caines yesterday pledged tourism would not suffer following the collapse of a proposed Bermuda-Toronto Zoom Airlines service.
Reacting to Zoom's announcement that the planned route had been scrapped, Sen. Caines...
DATE: Mar 15, 2008
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Hundreds of posters designed by Royal Gazette photographer Akil Simmons will go up in Bermuda and the UK to advertise the Run For Freedom.
Akil's image — representing how modern day slavery affects people of all racial backgrounds — encourages as man...
DATE: Mar 13, 2008
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Welders, electricians and mechanics will all have to meet new standards of competence under laws debated in the House of Assembly.
Under the National Occupational Certification Regulations 2008, an advisory committee will be set up to ensure workers ...
DATE: Mar 12, 2008
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Convicted drug trafficker Kirk Roberts has launched an appeal against a ruling ordering him to give up almost $1 million in personal assets.
Roberts, 46, was sentenced to ten years in jail in 2002 after being found guilty of conspiracy to import cann...
DATE: Mar 12, 2008
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The Ministry of Health's U-turn over the release of the Johns Hopkins healthcare review was prompted by reappointed Minister Nelson Bascome, it was revealed this week.
The Ministry previously refused all requests to share the report over the past fou...
DATE: Mar 12, 2008
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A drugs smuggler yesterday saw her sentence halved after a judge heard she had cooperated with authorities by giving evidence in the trial of her ex-boyfriend.
Teteeta Iereria — who imported heroin and cannabis worth more than $300,000 to Bermuda — s...
DATE: Mar 12, 2008
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