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Some sizeable bits of lumber floating in the waters around Bermuda are causing concern that there might be more unseen hazards bobbing around in the ocean around the Island.
Where the big pieces of wood - some as long as 75 feet - have come from is n...
DATE: Sep 28, 2005
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Steps are being taken this week to increase awareness of the potentially fatal mosquito-borne dengue fever reaching the Island after reports that two people have died from the infection this month in Martinique.
News of the deaths and of an epidemic ...
DATE: Sep 28, 2005
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Feeding the spiritual needs of young people should be the key component in a student?s education.
That?s the view of Jim Silcott, the new headmaster of Mount Saint Agnes Academy, Bermuda?s only Roman Catholic school.
Mr. Silcott arrived in May to tak...
DATE: Sep 28, 2005
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The fifth day of businessman Harold Darrell's racial discrimination hearing against 17 Bank of Bermuda directors was cut short yesterday when damp courtroom conditions sent the complainant into an asthma fit serious enough to send him home.
Mr. Darre...
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A 42-year-old Warwick man accused of importing over $100,000 worth of cannabis last year pleaded not guilty at Supreme Court yesterday.
Terrance Vancouver Caines, of Tribe 2 Road, denied importing over 2,000 grams of cannabis in reel-to reel containe...
DATE: Sep 28, 2005
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The new chairman of the Tourism Board yesterday called on hoteliers to examine their product and compare it to the message they have been ?hammering? out this past week.
Andre Curtis said Bermuda Hotel Association president, Mike Winfield was reporte...
DATE: Sep 28, 2005
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The Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation is offering a course to boost the leadership skills of anyone working with young people.
The course began last week and will run twice a week at the Bermuda College until December.
The goals of the course...
DATE: Sep 28, 2005
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A racer who braved sharks, hurricanes, deep salt-water sores and 1,000-foot container ships in a two-month non-stop rowboat challenge across the Atlantic Ocean will talk in Bermuda on October 6.
New Englander Tom Mailhot set off with Jim Veigler in h...
DATE: Sep 28, 2005
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A cement crisis on Bermuda has been averted as a result of "countless hours" of negotiations following the shock announcement last month that the Island's main cement supplier was pulling the plug.
Construction bosses can now rest easy, it is claimed...
DATE: Sep 28, 2005
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Knife-wielding attackers left a man seriously injured, as the Friendship Trophy soccer final descended into ugly scenes of public violence, a Supreme Court heard.
Tariq Foster was unconscious after he was pursued by two men ? one armed with a blade a...
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