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This is the full text of a speech made last night by the Premier, Dr. Ewart Brown, as he addressed the nation on the turbulence in the world's economies.
Good evening. As young people many of us learned a song that said: "Bermuda is another world."
W...
DATE: Oct 21, 2008
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A drug trafficker has been jailed for a year and ordered to hand over almost $70,000 in profits from his criminal enterprise.
Justin Guy DeSilva, 23, previously admitted to possessing 145.45 grams of cannabis with intent to supply, cultivating cannab...
DATE: Oct 21, 2008
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Just days before the Progressive Labour Party delegates conference, insiders say both Terry Lister and Randy Horton are poised to challenge Premier Ewart Brown's leadership.
Delegates are also discussing Sports Minister Elvin James as alternatives as...
DATE: Oct 20, 2008
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It was his first time at a Red Sox baseball game and his first time at Fenway Park in Boston, but George Wescom, 59, was no ordinary spectator.
The former Vietnam vet and St. David's Islander was front and centre carrying the Marine Corps flag along ...
DATE: Oct 18, 2008
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The uplifting voices of the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church male voice choir brought solace to the family, teammates and friends of injured footballer Gabriel Wilkinson last night.
The Somerset Eagles goalkeeper was critically injured i...
DATE: Oct 18, 2008
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A committee is still considering whether to replace or redesign the Bermuda School Certificate, the Ministry of Education said yesterday.
A spokesman told The Royal Gazette that a working group set up last year to look at the BSC — the qualification ...
DATE: Oct 17, 2008
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Budding writers are being encouraged to express thanks in return for up to $4,000 in educational grants.
The 12th Annual Tom Pettit Thanksgiving Essay Contest is underway, offering one secondary school student a $1,000 grant and six runners-up prizes...
DATE: Oct 17, 2008
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A business is taking a novel approach to encouraging tourism to the Island – by focusing on Victorian heritage.
Inspired by author Mark Twain's connections to the Island and artists Winslow Homer and Georgia O'Keeffe, Bermuda Supply is this week spon...
DATE: Oct 17, 2008
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TWO of Bermuda's leading business figures have spoken out on Bermuda's financial crisis, claiming the worst is yet to come, and blaming Government for failing to embrace the economy's only major driving force: international business.
Grant Gibbons, ...
DATE: Oct 17, 2008
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Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons last night urged Government to urgently replace or redesign the "substandard" Bermuda School Certificate.
The Opposition MP spoke out a day after Labour and Immigration Minister David Burch told Rotarians he wa...
DATE: Oct 16, 2008
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