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A homeless man who torched his employer’s furniture store in revenge after a dispute over money has been jailed for seven years.
Neil Trott, 41, stole an antique roulette table from Mitra Johnston before setting her Court Street store ablaze to cover...
DATE: Sep 03, 2010
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A forensic medical student has become the first beneficiary of Government's link-up with the University of West Indies.
Amne Osseyran is starting a course at medical school on Jamaica's Mona Campus next week; she will receive a discount of at least 1...
DATE: Sep 01, 2010
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The Berkeley Institute opened its doors to a new batch of students yesterday — all of whom will embark upon the Cambridge Curriculum next week.
The Ministry of Education is introducing the internationally-recognised curriculum in public schools in a ...
DATE: Sep 01, 2010
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Government should introduce more social programmes to improve people's chances of leading good lives instead of focusing on "deadbeat parents", according to former Progressive Labour Party MP Delaey Robinson.
Mr. Robinson yesterday called for the PLP...
DATE: Sep 01, 2010
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Bermuda Industrial Union boss Chris Furbert believes developing sports clubs can ease some of the much-publicised problems facing the Island's young people.
But as the long-serving president of Pembroke Hamilton Club (PHC), he knows only too well how...
DATE: Aug 30, 2010
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East End residents are concerned about the handling of asbestos being removed from a BLDC building in St. David's.
And while health officials have said asbestos-laced panelling at the site was supposed to be kept wet and wrapped, dozens of sheets wer...
DATE: Aug 30, 2010
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Sports legend Alma Victor "Champ" Hunt is the focus of a book donated to the Bermuda National Library yesterday.
Well-known author and historian Ira Philip presented a deposit copy of his book, 'Champ! The One and Only Alma Hunt', to the library's ne...
DATE: Aug 28, 2010
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Two foreigners accused of plotting to import $33 million worth of cannabis to Bermuda have been handed year-long jail terms after admitting to lesser charges.
Andrew Blatchley, 59, a British national living in South Carolina, and Peter Sagos, 36, fro...
DATE: Aug 28, 2010
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Air quality at an east end school is being tested after asbestos was found in the ceiling of the school's kitchen.
In a press release issued yesterday, the Commissioner of Education announced that asbestos had been found inside Clearwater Middle Scho...
DATE: Aug 28, 2010
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A Hamilton Parish man caught with cannabis was fined $1,000 in Magistrates' Court.
Glenn Walker, 21, of Radnor Road Close, pleaded guilty to possessing 0.37 grams of the controlled drug on March 11.
The court heard he was stopped by uniformed Polic...
DATE: Aug 27, 2010
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