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Bermudian conservation projects could benefit from a new environment protection fund for overseas territories which was unveiled yesterday.
A $4.5 million (?3 million) fund from the Foreign Office is designed to help eco-systems threatened with destr...
DATE: Dec 11, 2003
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Premier Alex Scott warned Britain yesterday that to appoint a non-Bermudian Chief Justice against the will of Government would be a “regressive step”.
Mr. Scott spent half an hour yesterday with Overseas Territories Minister Bill Rammell “forcibly” t...
DATE: Dec 11, 2003
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A new walking trail with interpretative panels has been created by the National Trust along the waterside of Warwick Pond on Middle Road.
It will be officially opened by the Environment Minister Neletha Butterfield today at 10 a.m.
The panels inform ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2003
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Government is to drop its bid to turn arable land at Frog Lane into a revamped Transport Control Department (TCD), Minister Ewart Brown said last night.
Both Dr. Brown and TCD director Kevin Monkman were tight-lipped about the reasons.
Dr. Brown told...
DATE: Dec 10, 2003
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Government said yesterday it followed parliamentary rules “to the letter” when it changed the law to make parents more responsible for their children's education before it published new school rules.
Acting Education Minister Senator Michael Scott re...
DATE: Dec 10, 2003
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Hospital facilities face a major overhaul over the next ten years as part of a widespread review.
Yesterday Bermuda Hospitals Board chairman Jonathan Brewin said work would start next year. It includes:
Intensive Care Unit renovations, which will sta...
DATE: Dec 10, 2003
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Prison Officers? Association officials are having showdown talks this morning with Prisons Commissioner John Prescod over the transfer of male prisoners from Westgate to the Co-Ed facility.
They are furious that not only did Home Affairs Minister Ran...
DATE: Dec 10, 2003
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They tell you it won't hurt, they tell you, you won't get burnt and they tell you just to keep walking, but something in your head is telling you that continuing to move towards the man with the petrol bomb in his hand is not going to be good for you...
DATE: Dec 10, 2003
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In strict formation, the heavily-equipped officers turned into a narrow alley to be confronted by a keffiyah-wearing maniac only too happy to toss petrol bombs directly at the feet of the advancing officers.
But clothed in fireproof overalls, and wit...
DATE: Dec 10, 2003
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The thorny issue of Bermuda's next Chief Justice will come to a head in London today when Premier Alex Scott and Overseas Territories Minister Bill Rammell hold private talks.
A personal meeting between the two has been arranged “at pretty short noti...
DATE: Dec 10, 2003
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