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The "incredible" skills of local farmers — and the need to support them — was the topic of debate kicking off the Motion to Adjourn in the House of Assembly yesterday.
Junior Labour Minister Walter Roban made a lengthy speech championing farmers and ...
DATE: Feb 14, 2009
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Parking bays will be removed from the Hamilton terminal on Washington Street tomorrow in an effort to ease safety concerns of angry bus drivers.
They have been on a work-to-rule for more than a week — leading to service disruptions and cancellations ...
DATE: Feb 14, 2009
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Mayor of St. George Mariea Caisey wants special ferries to collect people from Dockyard after cruise ships' visits to the Old Town were cut.
Only the Norwegian Majesty, which will make 21 trips to Ordnance Island, is scheduled for St. George's this y...
DATE: Feb 13, 2009
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Dennis Tucker has been appointed a common councillor at the Corporation of Hamilton.
Mr. Tucker, a director of Bank of Bermuda and former president of Sandys Rotary Club, was uncontested in his bid, the Corporation said in a statement yesterday.
He i...
DATE: Feb 13, 2009
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Altering a cheque to frame the Premier or Works Minister would have been practically impossible at the Bank of Bermuda or its cheque-clearing company, sources familiar with Bermuda's banking system told The Royal Gazette.
They said it was extremely u...
DATE: Feb 12, 2009
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The boss of a construction firm named in the 'false cheques' scandal yesterday backed up claims cheques were doctored to imply the Premier and Works Minister received kickbacks.
Adlia Davy said Scorpio Construction was given a cheque for $14,780 by L...
DATE: Feb 12, 2009
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Visitor arrivals fell 12.2 percent in 2008, Premier and Tourism Minister Ewart Brown revealed yesterday.
With air arrivals down 4.6 percent and cruise arrivals down 19.1 percent, the overall number of tourists dropped from 663,767 to 582,980 for the ...
DATE: Feb 10, 2009
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Taxpayers paid $3 million for the Bermuda Music Festival 2008 and its superstar performers Beyonce and Alicia Keys.
Premier and Tourism Minister Ewart Brown yesterday told a press conference that spending on the event represented "excellent value for...
DATE: Feb 10, 2009
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"Monkey go home" was the message Rolfe Commissiong found on his desk at Mount St. Agnes school one morning when he was six or seven years old.
Young Rolfe picked up the scrap of paper, which also bore a crude caricature of a monkey, screwed it up and...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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Air and cruise arrivals were both down for 2008, Premier and Tourism Minister Ewart Brown announced today.
Revealing gloomy year-on-year statistics at a press conference, the Premier said the overall number of visitors for last year was 582,980 — dow...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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