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UBP calls for carpooling for commuters out of St. George's
Shadow Transport Minister Jamahl Simmons yesterday urged commuters using the Causeway to car pool and cut down on non-essential travel, in an effort to reduce traffic on the storm damaged bri...
DATE: Sep 26, 2003
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The Bermuda Telephone Company - which has long held the monopoly for local telephone service - is being given a run for its money by North Rock Communications.
North Rock, best known as an Internet service provider (ISP) and long-distance telephone c...
DATE: Sep 26, 2003
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BTC CEO Francis Mussenden's move to bring workers out of retirement in an effort to get phone lines back up after the hurricane has been hailed as a step in the right direction by a seniors' advocacy group.
"When I heard Mr. Mussenden say that, I tho...
DATE: Sep 26, 2003
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Help advertise Bermuda abroad - with a bumper sticker
Gorham's is doing its part to revive tourism after Hurricane Fabian with bumper stickers and decals aimed at luring visitors to the Island. Rod Ferguson, chairman of Gorham's Ltd., presented Premi...
DATE: Sep 26, 2003
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Action group the Women's Resource Centre has questioned why a man suspected of spiking a woman's drink will not be brought before the courts until December this year.
Executive director Penny Dill said the incidence of drink-spiking was on the increa...
DATE: Sep 26, 2003
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He has the gift of the gab and is fiercely protective of his party. Glenn Blakeney, a former public relations officer for the Progressive Labour Party (PLP), has his sights set on speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves once the House of A...
DATE: Sep 26, 2003
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Bermuda's lack of a sex offender's register is putting children at risk, claims a Texas-based Islander.
Felicia Garnett, who has worked with abused youngsters in her role with a state office in the US, believes the country needs to "get with the prog...
DATE: Sep 26, 2003
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Two lawyers squared off in Magistrates' Court after a heated morning of fining drug-importing cruise ship passengers.
Crown counsel Koshea Scott and defence counsel Ray DeSilva went eyeball-to-eyeball in the corridor immediately outside Court One yes...
DATE: Sep 26, 2003
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Government workers who took part in last week's three-day general strike will not get paid for the time off, Cabinet Secretary John Drinkwater said yesterday.
Bermuda CableVision boss Jeremy Elmas said his workers will not get paid for striking while...
DATE: Sep 26, 2003
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Hurricane Juan continued to stay away from Bermuda at midday today as the Island exercised an abundance of caution towards the storm.
The storm was upgraded from a tropical storm to a hurricane at midday when it was located near 32.2 degrees north 62...
DATE: Sep 26, 2003
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