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Don?t miss 16-page year in review in tomorrow?s newspaper.
The 16-page wrap-up of events in Bermuda and around the world will include reviews of the year in news, business, sports and arts and entertainment as well as the best pictures of the last 12...
DATE: Dec 30, 2004
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Bermudians Jim and Lolly Burnett-Herkes were forced to climb a rock face and hide in a jungle for hours after being caught on an island off the coast of Thailand when the Boxing Day tsunami struck.
The Hinson?s Island couple, on a yachting trip aroun...
DATE: Dec 30, 2004
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The Bermuda Red Cross yesterday reported perhaps their busiest day ever as locals dug deep for the relief effort to the tsunami-hit countries of Asia.
Helen Wicks, administrator of the Bermuda Red Cross, did a quick tally of takings at the office at ...
DATE: Dec 30, 2004
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The Salvation Army has called on Government to get on with plans to replace the ageing emergency housing shelter in North Street which has been targeted by drug pushers.
Last night Salvation Army Major Lindsay Rowe said Works and Engineering had made...
DATE: Dec 30, 2004
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C Travel, the agents who deal with the majority of local flight bookings to Asia, has been inundated by guest workers attempting to fly home in the aftermath of the unprecedented destruction wrought across the Indian Ocean basin by the powerful tsuna...
DATE: Dec 30, 2004
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Weather in the 60s might be a bit chilly for Bermuda, but cruise ship passengers making an overnight call yesterday had no complaints.
The ? formerly thearrived in Dockyard at 10.30 yesterday morning with 528 passengers on board.
?The ship made its j...
DATE: Dec 30, 2004
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A Christmas crackdown on drug smugglers at Westgate has netted five arrests as Acting Prisons Commissioner Hubert Dean pledged to keep up the hunt for narcotics within prison walls.
Extra Police dogs were drafted in to help as relatives and friends p...
DATE: Dec 30, 2004
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The Corporation of St. George?s will be hosting its 14th annual jam-packed New Year?s Eve extravaganza with dancing, food and fireworks tonight.
The party starts at 8 p.m. in King?s Square and culminates with the traditional lowering of the onion, co...
DATE: Dec 30, 2004
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Bermuda CableVision?s ?Christmas present? of a preview of cable ends on Monday.
Company president Jeremy Elmas said last week: ?From 6 p.m. on Friday, December 24 to 8 a.m. on Monday, January 3, 2005, we?re inviting our customers to tune in and find ...
DATE: Dec 29, 2004
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Tsunamis are much less likely to occur in the Atlantic than in the Indian or Pacific Oceans, but Bermuda could still face a massive tidal surge like the one that hit Southeast Asia and East Africa.
According to US geologists and oceanographers, tsuna...
DATE: Dec 29, 2004
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