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The Island's top churchmen have split over Bermuda's plan to end the death penalty.
Senior members of the Catholic and Anglican faiths welcomed proposals to ax the rope as a punishment for premeditated murder.
But the presiding elder of the African M...
DATE: Dec 21, 1999
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CATEGORY:
Religion
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
"It's a snail eat snail world,'' Wolfgang Sterrer quipped as he pulled out a drawer filled with hundreds of fossil land snail shells.
Dr. Sterrer, head of the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum, and Zoo, was unveiling a little known fact about Bermuda's natura...
DATE: Dec 20, 1999
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Burgess
Saturday's Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute Christmas Boat Parade has been hailed as a resounding success.
In only its second year, the parade has joined the list of major public events that mark the Bermuda social calendar, with crowds linin...
DATE: Dec 20, 1999
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Burgess
A new Bone Densitometer at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital will ensure earlier diagnosis in the war against osteoporosis.
Representatives from Merck, Sharpe and Dohme (MS&D) recently donated a cheque of $10,000 to help KEMH realise its dream.
The m...
DATE: Dec 20, 1999
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*** Every country worth its salt has a national narrative. Something to which it looks for who its people are and how it has been built.
If its people are not on the same page there is discord and mis-communication about the basics of history.
A goo...
DATE: Dec 20, 1999
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Burgess
*** Have we become so inured to the familiarity -- or is it the schmaltz? -- of traditional Christmas music that we find it difficult to assimilate something so different as Benjamin Britten's St. Nicholas Canata, Op. 42, or is the reality that this...
DATE: Dec 18, 1999
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When Katie Trimingham overheard her mother talking about an appeal to buy beds for needy Bermudian children she decided to do something about it.
Two days after hearing her mother Wendy, the operations manager at Trimingham Bros., discuss the raffle ...
DATE: Dec 18, 1999
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CATEGORY:
Young Observer
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at the Fairmont Southampton Princess.
The concert, proceeds of which will go toward the Jonathan Lightbourne Up With People Fund account at the Bank of N.T. Butterfield, will begin at 4 p.m.
Tickets, which can be purchased at the door, are $10.
DATE: Dec 18, 1999
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Other
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cards, Works and Engineering Minister Alex Scott told MPs yesterday.
He said: "The future sees the potential of a dock/marina enclosure for arrival and pick-up from the airport by ferry, water shuttle and/or private boat.'' And he added that the air...
DATE: Dec 18, 1999
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Christmas break.
They have just completed several projects in their core curriculum, including a study of sounds of science.
According to principal Charlotte Ming: "Not only did they examine the concept of pitch and frequency, they actually applied t...
DATE: Dec 18, 1999
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CATEGORY:
Young Observer
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