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Government yesterday pledged a crackdown on child porn and harsher penalties for sex offenders as it keeps up the pace of anti-crime legislation.
Last year saw a string of harsher penalties for violence and drug offences and in the coming months an o...
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nviting a Royal to deliver a speech announcing how Bermuda wants to split from the Crown could have been Alex Scott?s tactical masterstroke but in the end it backfired badly.
Needing to get momentum behind his desperately flagging bid for Independenc...
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hey call it doing a "double-shift" ? working women, and it is predominately women, who hold down a full time job at the same time as looking after an elderly family member.
But even the double-shifters have it easy compared to the triple-shifters, th...
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After an absence of two years, some 40 postal workers will be returning to the AMF building at the Airport in January to resume their duties. This follows the severe damage to the mail processing centre during Hurricane Fabian two years ago.
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Government revealed further details of its housing programme yesterday as it tries to start work on 330 new rental units over the next 30 months.
Works and Engineering and Housing Minister David Burch said the Perimeter Lane project in Pembroke will ...
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Government is maintaining its push for Independence with a pledge to hold further parliamentary and public debate but Premier Alex Scott has again refused to give a timetable.
The bid for sovereignty was one of the key themes of yesterday's Throne Sp...
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Camera-wielding tourists trailed the Duke of York during his visit to Royal Naval Dockyard yesterday, eager to snap prize photos for their family albums.
One man followed him with a video camera throughout the entire visit, though he was turned away ...
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?Government to push ahead with Independence
?Crackdown on child porn
?Tougher penalties for sex offenders
?Details of housing programme unveiled
?Government to set up their own TV channel
?Economic empowerment zone to be created in North Hamilton
?Fr...
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Curious visitors and locals lined the streets of Hamilton to get a close look at Royal guest Prince Andrew as he arrived in the middle of the pomp and ceremony heralding the re-convening of Parliament.
Front Street was a blaze of colour as the bright...
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The National Trust has welcomed announcements made in the Throne Speech about steps to protect the environment.
An amendment to the Bermuda National Parks Act will see the number of parks protected under the Act expanded. Enforcement powers against o...
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