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Housing officials have hit back after suggestions that the sale of Southside homes was "robbing the people''.
The Bermuda Land Development Company have moved to put the record straight after Bermuda Industrial Union president and Hamilton East Member...
DATE: Aug 25, 1998
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newspaper over an interview with the former leader of the Opposition youth wing.
Angry Works and Engineering Minister C.V. (Jim) Woolridge yesterday alleged statements made in the article were defamatory.
And he has already demanded an apology and re...
DATE: Aug 14, 1998
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
National Liberal Party leader Charles Jeffers is calling for a referendum on whether Bermudians should accept British passports if the United Kingdom offers them.
And, although the head of Bermuda's third party did not say which way he would vote, he...
DATE: Aug 03, 1998
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Gareth Finighan
A referendum on Independence could be held before the next General Election if a lawyer wins his legal argument against the Government.
Attorney Philip Perinchief has issued an originating summons in the Supreme Court asking that the 1995 referendum ...
DATE: Jul 29, 1998
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Gareth Finighan
However, with an election approaching there may not be a great dearth of news which is what journalists generally mean by "silly season''.
Be that as it may, there have been a number of events lately which indicate that the heat may be getting to som...
DATE: Jul 27, 1998
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British citizenship from the UK could spell "total extinction'' for the Island.
And Philip Perinchief slammed both the ruling United Bermuda Party and the Progressive Labour Party for failing to spot the dangers.
He said Bermuda's Parliament faced be...
DATE: Jul 17, 1998
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
60/40 rule, it seems clear that politicians of both political stripes have been playing a dangerous game. It is clear that today the Bank of Bermuda is a highly complex international operation which competes in a tough field with much larger and unfe...
DATE: Jul 10, 1998
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five years in Parliament's hotseat.
And MPs queued up to pay tribute to Mr. DeCouto, an MP for more than a quarter of a century.
An emotional Mr. DeCouto told MPs: "I would like to announce to this House and to my constituents in Smith's North that I...
DATE: Jul 07, 1998
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been warned: "Stay indoors -- your lives depend on it.'' Almost 2,000 fires have scorched nearly half a million acres in central and northeast Florida.
More than 100,000 people have been evacuated -- spending the Independence Day holiday in shelters...
DATE: Jul 06, 1998
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Jennifer Smith now seem to be in doubt. Or, perhaps, we are just witnessing political manoeuvering.
We see the debates as very important to Bermuda because they will allow the people to judge the party platforms for the future and the general intent ...
DATE: Jul 06, 1998
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