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PLP backbencher Glenn Blakeney stood by comments made earlier by Community Affairs and Sport Minister Dale Butler - that international business should be taxed.
“Why should be have to acquiesce to tax, no matter how slight,” Mr. Blakeney said.
He sai...
DATE: Feb 27, 2006
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An American think tank has heavily criticised Premier Alex Scott over the Independence debate, accusing him of a ?persistent inability to provide adequate and balanced information? on the issue.
In a strongly-worded statement released to 12,000 media...
DATE: Feb 27, 2006
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Union leader Ed Ball has hit back at claims the Civil Service is blocking the PLP Government and has said some politicians treated ministries like a private business.
He was responding to claims made by former PLP Senator Calvin Smith in a recent opi...
DATE: Feb 27, 2006
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King Edward VII Memorial Hospital is likely to be rebuilt on its current site amid fears that a cheaper and quicker move to the Arboretum could trigger traffic problems.
The new facility is likely to cost in the region of $500 million, and the projec...
DATE: Feb 27, 2006
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Parishes Achieving Change Together needs more volunteers in order to run a reading programme at Francis Patton School.
So far 15 people give up free time to be part of PACT?s Volunteer Literacy Tutor Initiative. The volunteers have undergone training...
DATE: Feb 27, 2006
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?The mere mention of Independence is a problem? Alex Scott is reported to have admitted in a speech during his recent trip to Cayman.
While making it clear that he did not wish to comment on how the Cayman Islands should ?evolve? its constitution, he...
DATE: Feb 27, 2006
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A hole in a wall the size of a 25 cents coin is all that is needed for a rat to squeeze through, while the gap only needs to be a size of a dime for a mouse.
Small holes left by cables and wires under the eaves or through walls are all that is requir...
DATE: Feb 25, 2006
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Attempts by prosecutors to seize up to $2 million in assets from a major Bermuda drug importer finally swung into action yesterday.
Nearly four years after he was convicted of conspiring to import cannabis worth an estimated $1.9 million into the cou...
DATE: Feb 25, 2006
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A man who skipped out on paying a $25 taxi bill ended up footing a far larger bill in Magistrates? Court yesterday.
Leon Andrew Robain, of Warwick, admitted that he failed to pay his taxi fare, $25.70, on February 6.
He told Senior Magistrate Archiba...
DATE: Feb 25, 2006
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With growing concern that the world is facing an imminent influenza pandemic to match the three global pandemics of the last century, Health Minister Patrice Minors has warned that a virus with a typical 25 percent attack rate would affect 15,851 peo...
DATE: Feb 25, 2006
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