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Firefighters in the UK suspected official figures were being massaged relating to the number of violent attacks on crews.
Using the Freedom of Information Act, they got hold of the statistics themselves — and found they had every right to be suspicio...
DATE: Mar 19, 2008
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Opposition Senate Leader Michael Dunkley cautioned Government about the dangers of running up too much debt and warned: "Good times don't always last."
During the Budget Debate on Interest on Debt and the Sinking Fund, Senators discussed how the publ...
DATE: Mar 19, 2008
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Everyone in the Senate with the exception of Senator Wayne Caines is at least ten pounds overweight, Senator Thaao Dill told the Upper House.
However, Sen. Dill withdrew his remark after he was challenged by Opposition Senate Leader Michael Dunkley, ...
DATE: Mar 19, 2008
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Veteran journalist Bryan Darby yesterday warned any eroding of freedom of speech — amid a culture of hostility to the press by politicians — would lead to a gloomy future for Bermuda's children.
The VSB reporter said repeated attacks on the media, pa...
DATE: Mar 18, 2008
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It didn't take long for Bryan Darby to get into hot water when he took on a new job as Government's director of information two decades ago.
A supporter of the people's right to know following a long career as a journalist in the UK and Bermuda, on h...
DATE: Mar 18, 2008
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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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