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Almost two years after he almost died as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident, Wolde Bartley has started to show remarkable signs of recovery. At the start of this year the 25-year-old regained movement in his thumbs. Along with moving hi...
DATE: May 11, 2006
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The Auditor General has urged Finance Minister Paula Cox to step up efforts to curb overspending across Government departments.
The call for tighter control from Larry Dennis came in his latest report on Government finances, where it was revealed tha...
DATE: May 10, 2006
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A thief caught breaking into the same Devonshire home twice in the same month was given his ?last chance? in Supreme Court on Friday ? a two-year prison sentence suspended for three years.
Shannon D. Somersall, 39, of Longridge Pass, Devonshire, was ...
DATE: May 10, 2006
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A container which held $500,000 worth of cannabis had cleared Customs but left on the dock to await pickup by a trucker for nearly 16 hours before the 24 pounds of drugs were discovered, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.
And the man to which the ...
DATE: May 10, 2006
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Bermudians Against Narcotics has thrown down the gauntlet to the Police and Corrections services to introduce random mandatory drug tests for all officers.
Campaign organiser Takbir Sharrieff spoke out after prison Commissioner Hubert Dean revealed h...
DATE: May 10, 2006
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A Police probe is underway amid claims that funds have been stolen from the Bank of Butterfield.can reveal that detectives are currently investigating a reported theft of cash from one of the Island?s biggest financial institutions.
News of the inqui...
DATE: May 10, 2006
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Tributes have been paid to famous Bermudian John Young II who has died at the age of 90.
He was the last survivor of Bermuda?s first Olympic team, which competed in the 1936 Berlin Games, and was known to regularly swim from Somerset Bridge to Hamilt...
DATE: May 10, 2006
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The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has taken out a full-page advertisement in today's Royal Gazette outlining its concerns about an animal show that plans to visit Bermuda at the end of May.
In the advertisement the SPCA states it i...
DATE: May 10, 2006
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People needing emergency medical treatment are not turned away from the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, nor are patients discharged from the hospital until it is deemed medically appropriate.
Hospital chief Venetta Symonds has responded to a claim...
DATE: May 10, 2006
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Teachers at two schools have called a halt to a work to rule, can reveal.
Staff at Spice Valley Middle School in Warwick will officially return to normal working practices today after they took action over warning letters being placed on their person...
DATE: May 08, 2006
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