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A man alleged to have smuggled $1.8 million of heroin into Bermuda walked free yesterday after a judge ruled the Crown could not prosecute him because he had been in custody so long that his rights had been violated.
Now the taxpayer faces a compensa...
DATE: Jan 27, 2004
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The future of Bermuda policing has been unveiled, with Recruitment Foundation Course 64 four months away from hitting the streets.
The group of 14 officers, ranging in age from 19 to 44, were shown off to the Press yesterday at the service?s Prospect...
DATE: Jan 27, 2004
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For Dawn Simmons, one of several possible candidates for the upcoming Sandys North by-election, politics is a family tradition.
Her father Eugene Gilbert worked in the background for many Progressive Labour Party (PLP) electoral campaigns and paved t...
DATE: Jan 27, 2004
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As the Country faces its first by-election under the new electoral system, at least one ruling party candidate is confident that her party?s democracy is improving in leaps and bounds.
?The organisational politics is just maturing,? said candidate fo...
DATE: Jan 27, 2004
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Government is spending $250,000 on refurbishing the Police firing range.
Commissioner Jonathan Smith confirmed construction on the range at Cooper's Island is well underway and the facility will be opening in mid-March.
The range, formerly used by US...
DATE: Jan 27, 2004
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A group of trade unions has called on Government not to amend the Employment Act.
And the Bermuda Trade Union Congress said yesterday in a surprise statement that employees who want better working conditions than those laid down by the legislation sh...
DATE: Jan 27, 2004
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Children may have set shed on fire
A fire, suspected to have been set by children, left a homeowner with approximately $200 in damage to a shed.
The Bermuda Fire Service attended a Bay Lane, Somerset home after a reported fire at 2.46 p.m. on Saturda...
DATE: Jan 27, 2004
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Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of unpaid parking tickets remain outstanding because of a failure on the part of prosecutors to bring offenders to court, has learned.
And it emerged that the Island?s ?worst offender? for parking ticket offence...
DATE: Jan 27, 2004
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Regiment soldier Wolette Darrell has been given the chance to have her college expenses paid for through a collaboration with the National Training Board (NTB) and the Bermuda Regiment.
The programme has successfully helped 15 soldiers such as Ms Dar...
DATE: Jan 26, 2004
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Government has allocated approximately three-quarters of a billion dollars to healthcare, and half a billion dollars to the hospital alone in the past five years, an MP has claimed.
However, with the PLP's sixth Budget approaching, Shadow Health Mini...
DATE: Jan 26, 2004
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