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American Airlines passengers were up in arms at the Bermuda International Airport yesterday when their plane was grounded in New York, leaving them stranded at the airport for an expected eight hours.
"The plane suffered a series of mechanical diffic...
DATE: Apr 29, 2003
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Health Department officials spent the day yesterday trying to get to the bottom of reports that a Bermudian woman in Toronto had been affected by the SARS virus.
The woman was expected to fly back to the Island yesterday but called her employer to sa...
DATE: Apr 29, 2003
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Dr. Craig Venter, the scientist best known for sequencing the human genetic map, has won funding to do the same thing with the Sargasso Sea.
Dr. Venter will be working with the Bermuda Biological Station for Research (BBSR) to try to genetically sequ...
DATE: Apr 29, 2003
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A letter to the Editor claiming autism can be caused by the vaccines given to young children has been called "hysterical" and "irresponsible" by members of Bermuda's medical profession.
"The evidence linking the MMR (mumps/measles/rubella) vaccine to...
DATE: Apr 29, 2003
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Immigration Minister Terry Lister has called on companies to come clean about suspect foreign employees rather than allowing them to move to other firms on the Island.
Mr. Lister said companies were being asked to provide a clean bill of health for e...
DATE: Apr 29, 2003
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Broadcast news reporter Bryan Darby was pleasantly surprised at the Visitor Industry Partnership (VIP) awards luncheon yesterday when he found that he was one of the awardees.
"I've been going to these VIP awards every year and it's quite humbling be...
DATE: Apr 28, 2003
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The following is the full text of a press release by the Prison Officer's Association
We the officers and members of the Prison Officers Association feel compelled to present to the public our position on the situation we now find ourselves. The Asso...
DATE: Apr 28, 2003
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A major exempt company is expected to move into a new four storey waterfront office being built on East Broadway, The Royal Gazette has learned.
The 39,000 square foot office is scheduled to open by July 2004 and developers Crow Lane Properties Ltd. ...
DATE: Apr 28, 2003
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A nation-wide television show this week to select the world's next female singing superstar will have a Bermudian flavour.
For Sasha Allen, one of the competitors in the New York contest, which will be featured all this week on VH1, is the granddaugh...
DATE: Apr 28, 2003
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The distraught mother of promising student Shaundae Winston Jones broke down and cried yesterday as she said: "When they shot Shaundae, they shot me, too."
Marsha Jones said she felt like her life had come to an end after her only child had been brut...
DATE: Apr 28, 2003
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