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Tyco is to stay in Bermuda, for now.
At the Annual General Meeting held at the Fairmont Hamilton yesterday, 73 per cent of votes cast rejected a proposal to repatriate to the United States.
However a coalition of unions and pension funds in favour of...
DATE: Mar 07, 2003
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When he was ten Corey Butterfield put together a scrapbook of a 1980s Progressive Labour Party (PLP) election campaign. Two decades later, as party spokesman, he was to play a key role in ensuring the 1998 election victory.
While he still waxes nosta...
DATE: Mar 07, 2003
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No inquest will be held into the death of Eugene Lloyd (Josh) Smith.
The body of 57-year-old Mr. Smith was found on the morning of February 25 behind the Hamilton Parish Workmen's Club. At the time, it was thought that the father-of-three had been be...
DATE: Mar 07, 2003
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Brandishing their Uzis, members of the Bermuda Regiment got a taste for combat this week.
It was only training, of course, but with a little bit of imagination they could have been engaged on some do-or-die operation.
Continuous fog and rain only add...
DATE: Mar 07, 2003
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James Dwyer, the former owner of the White Sands hotel has been indicted in the US on charges he lied to bankers when he applied for a $16 million construction loan.
The New Jersey property developer who owned the White Sands property from 1998 until...
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Vandals have been beheading palmetto palm trees at Spittal Pond in a "crime against the people of Bermuda".
Government conservation officer Jeremy Madeiros has now appealed for public help in catching the culprits.
Mr. Madeiros said the conservation ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2003
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A Jamaican national who imported over $43,000 worth of crack cocaine into the Island in October 2002, began serving four years in Westgate last night after he had his sentence slashed by 50 percent for providing substantial information to the Police ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2003
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A Saltus Grammar School student who left his Dell laptop computer in the school locker room returned two hours later to find it stolen. Police were called to the school on Tuesday afternoon after the 16-year-old reported the theft. The student told P...
DATE: Mar 07, 2003
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1963 - February - Formation of the party; First party platform adopted,calling for tax equity, ending racial discrimination, greater economic parity, electoral reform and a host of social programs. Three months later contested the general election wi...
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The Bermuda Industrial Union has failed in its bid to bar a judge from deciding on an important labour case.
BIU lawyer Delroy Duncan argued Assistant Justice Philip Storr did not have the authority to decide whether a Government-appointed tribunal w...
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