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The Minister of Finance Paula Coxwas praised in the House of Assembly by one of her fellow MPs after receiving an honorary degree from Wheelock College.
Environment Minister Neletha Butterfield said she was honoured to have been at the ceremony at th...
DATE: May 22, 2004
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On Sunday Bermudians are invited to join millions of people around the world to celebrate African Liberation Day.
The event will be held at Fort St. Catherine Beach, which is the Island?s closest point to Africa.
It is being commemorated by the risin...
DATE: May 22, 2004
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Overall crime levels ? especially non-violent crimes ? are significantly lower for the first quarter of 2004.
However, the perception that crime is on the increase remains, Assistant Police Commissioner Carlton Adams said.
He said the perception may ...
DATE: May 22, 2004
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Opposition Senate Leader Kim Swan yesterday said he had tabled a motion in Senate for the Government and the Opposition to debate the fate of Anchorage Road tenants.
This upcoming debate plans to examine the plans by Government ?to move away from the...
DATE: May 22, 2004
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Shadow Housing Minister Wayne Furbert yesterday launched a scathing indictment against the Government on their inaction on the housing crisis.
Mr. Furbert, in an address that lasted hours, condemned Government on what he said was their failure ?to pr...
DATE: May 22, 2004
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The Bermuda Counsellors Association will present a letter to Housing Minister Ashfield DeVent next week calling for action on the ?desperate and alarming? housing crisis.
The letter calls on Government and the private sector to help the community fin...
DATE: May 22, 2004
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Students marched on Parliament yesterday demanding that Government ?Give our teachers what they want?, but an early morning agreement had already sent teachers back into classrooms.
The students, from CedarBridge Academy and Berkeley Institute, had p...
DATE: May 22, 2004
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The first students to complete the Instructional Leadership Doctoral Programme in Bermuda received their diplomas from St. John's University School of Education recently.
"These eight doctoral graduates represent the first educators in Bermuda to ear...
DATE: May 22, 2004
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Responding to the scathing critique of his UBP counterpart, Housing Minister Ashfield DeVent said despite all the UBP?s ?plans?, Bermuda was still in a housing crisis when they left office.
Mr. DeVent also changed the UBP motion deploring the failure...
DATE: May 22, 2004
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Prison for house-breaker with heroin problem
A man who blamed his house breaking problem on heroin abuse was sentenced to 18 months in prison and two years of probation in Supreme Court yesterday.
Cedric Alexander Simons, 36, of Spar Lane, Sandys had...
DATE: May 22, 2004
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