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A Scottish company could stand to lose $1.9-million after an Island taxi group put the brakes on importing some 40 wheelchair-friendly taxis ? set to have arrived here in the New Year.
Lamjid Associated, who were importing the taxis to Bermuda and se...
DATE: Dec 18, 2004
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In the spirit of Christmas giving, a 97-year-old compassionate Bermudian who sponsored a girl in India since 1979, has donated her entire estate to World Vision.
And on hand to receive the cheque in Bermuda yesterday was the Managing Director of an A...
DATE: Dec 18, 2004
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It may be the crisis of his life, but the entire Berkeley student population ? all 500 plus of them ? were there yesterday to walk him through it.
Sixteen-year old Dejon Simmons, an S3 student at the Berkeley Institute, lies recovering in a Boston ho...
DATE: Dec 18, 2004
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Funding for the Bermuda Independence Commission (BIC) will be provided from Government?s Central Policy Unit based on its needs, a Government spokesperson explained yesterday.
The BIC is operating just as any Government committee or board operates, ...
DATE: Dec 18, 2004
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Controversial plans to build Bermuda's second dolphin captive swim facility at Sinky Bay were turned down by the Development Applications Board yesterday.
Local and overseas environmentalists were successful in their fight to prevent the Bermuda Dolp...
DATE: Dec 17, 2004
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Chamber of Commerce president Charles Gosling last night urged hard-line employers to compromise over the overtime issue after the Senate blocked mandatory premium pay.
He said he was pleased an amendment making time and a half mandatory after 40 hou...
DATE: Dec 17, 2004
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Bishop Vernon Lambe will head the 14-strong Bermuda Independence Commission (BIC), which met for the first time yesterday at Camden House.
As for the Opposition's refusal to participate on the BIC, Premier Alex Scott stated yesterday: “We honestly re...
DATE: Dec 17, 2004
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The Ministry of Education has not responded to a request from The Royal Gazette to see written requests for political figures Jennifer Smith and Walter Roban to speak at public schools in the last year.
In a statement last week, a Government spokespe...
DATE: Dec 17, 2004
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Parliament Street swarmed with armed Police officers yesterday following the issuing of a direct threat to disrupt proceedings in a trial in Magistrates? Court.
In an official statement to the assembled media, Police public relations officer Dwayne C...
DATE: Dec 17, 2004
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A local soccer player and a friend are fighting for their lives at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital this morning following what police services are calling a ?freakish accident?.
Randall ?Randy? Swan was travelling east in a grey Renault Clio in Sou...
DATE: Dec 17, 2004
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