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Immediate reaction to yesterday's Throne Speech was lukewarm, judging from a random survey of ruling party backbenchers and Opposition members soon after Parliament recessed.
"There was nothing said about housing," said a clearly disappointed Dale Bu...
DATE: Nov 02, 2002
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Striking teachers voted to go back to work and then marched on Parliament yesterday to show their frustration at low pay.
Their change of heart after five days of empty schools staved off a possible injunction which could have seen teachers arrested ...
DATE: Nov 02, 2002
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A narcotics detective appeared in Magistrates' Court yesterday charged with conspiring to import drugs into Bermuda.
Detective Constable Clifford Stanley Roberts, 32, of Headquarters Hill, Devonshire, faced five drug-related charges going back to 199...
DATE: Nov 02, 2002
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Shadow Works and Engineering Minister Erwin Adderley has no plans to retire from politics before the next election.
Mr. Adderley strongly denied this newspaper's understanding that he will be stepping down before the next election.
"I have not told m...
DATE: Nov 02, 2002
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The following is the full text of the Speech from the Throne delivered yesterday by Governor Sir John Vereker:
Mr. President and Members of the Senate,
Mr. Speaker and Members of the Honourable House of Assembly,
"With all [our blessings, what more i...
DATE: Nov 02, 2002
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The new fast ferries have taken 44,000 people so far and the success has “exceeded expectations,” Transport Minister Dr Ewart Brown said yesterday.
“We are extremely proud of the early successes achieved in the first six months of the service,” Dr. B...
DATE: Nov 02, 2002
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Residents in Middletown last night asked for greater Police presence after a 21-year-old Jamaican man was attacked with an unknown weapon in broad daylight.
The Devonshire man was attacked at about 4.15 p.m. in the small landscaped area that leads fr...
DATE: Nov 02, 2002
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Education was the top priority yesterday in the final Throne Speech before the next general election.
But the speech also unveiled new measures to update labour legislation, expand an annual workplace survey to include gender and nationality and incr...
DATE: Nov 02, 2002
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Government MP Arthur Pitcher walked out of Magistrates' Court a happy man yesterday after being cleared of assaulting one of his construction workers.
Magistrate William Francis said he did not believe Mr. Pitcher had used excessive force when he pus...
DATE: Nov 02, 2002
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A man accused of temporarily blinding his fiance` after pouring a bottle of disinfectant over her head will have to wait three weeks for the verdict of his trial.
Forest Cecil Nusum, 37, of Soundview Road, Somerset, is alleged to have poured the bott...
DATE: Nov 02, 2002
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