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Passenger numbers at Bermuda International Airport have slumped by 40 percent since Hurricane Fabian hit the Island, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Around $6.5 million of damage was caused to the Airport complex when the storm hit but it is the loss o...
DATE: Oct 01, 2003
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A woman was left with serious neck and face wounds after being slashed from the roadside while riding her motorcycle.
The 24-year-old Warwick woman was travelling slowly due to the heavy rain along Middle Road at 7.35p.m. on Thursday, near the juncti...
DATE: Oct 01, 2003
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A drug mule who claimed the $100,000 worth of heroin he smuggled into Bermuda was for personal use has been jailed for five years.
Jason Barnett, 31, from Wolverhampton, England was arrested at the Airport on November 26 last year.
He later passed ni...
DATE: Oct 01, 2003
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Premier Alex Scott is scheduled to meet today with Overseas Territories Minister Bill Rammell.
In a Press statement issued by the Department of Communication and Information (DCI), Mr. Scott referred to an "earlier erroneous press report" in and desc...
DATE: Oct 01, 2003
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Weather forecasters are keeping an eye on Hurricane Kate as she sits directly to our east and slowly makes her way in Bermuda's direction. But the category one hurricane, which was expected to be upgraded from a tropical storm last night, is not like...
DATE: Oct 01, 2003
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Congestion at Hamilton docks is likely to continue after Hurricane Juan imposed even further delays at the port at the weekend.
President of Stevedoring Services Ltd. Bruce Lines said the threat of the hurricane, which brushed past the Island last Fr...
DATE: Oct 01, 2003
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Despite the destruction caused by Hurricane Fabian, the Department of Planning has so far seen only a "trickle" of emergency planning applications, said director Rudolph Hollis.
The department prepared for the hurricane by allowing applicants to fast...
DATE: Oct 01, 2003
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Community Affairs Minister Dale Butler should immediately revoke the recently signed cultural exchange memo with Cuba, according to the United Bermuda Party (UBP).
"There's been a longstanding policy of isolating Cuba throughout the world - not just ...
DATE: Oct 01, 2003
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Five men are on Police bail after a car chase which ended in a suspected gun being brandished.
Police are unable to confirm whether it was real as nothing was recovered after the men were caught in Devonshire.
Officers chased the black Peugeot after ...
DATE: Oct 01, 2003
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A Canadian tourist drowned at Horseshoe Bay after a suspected heart attack.
Lifeguards and a visiting American doctor fought for more than 20 minutes to try to save 62-year-old Levy Shekhter after he ran into difficulties at the popular beach around ...
DATE: Oct 01, 2003
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