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A Jamaican nurse has been jailed for 14 years after pleading guilty to importing nearly $2 million worth of heroin in her underpants.
However mother of three Teartia Laverna Smith, 38, could find her sentence slashed in half on appeal if she carries ...
DATE: May 09, 2002
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Residents are being urged to be aware of the silent menace of Multiple Sclerosis on the eve of tomorrow's Carnation Day to raise money for sufferers.
Fundraiser Richard Wakefield said there are 29 known sufferers in Bermuda but he suspected there wer...
DATE: May 09, 2002
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Locals should boycott fast food joints which employ non Bermudians in positions requiring no special skills, said independent Senator Jeannette Cannonier in the Senate chamber yesterday.
Government Senator Michael Scott, however, characterised the ca...
DATE: May 09, 2002
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Government workers last night urged the Bermuda Public Services Union (BPSU) to take a tougher stance on Government offering personal contracts to employees.
At a members' meeting in Hamilton, some workers said they believed the Civil Service was vio...
DATE: May 09, 2002
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A self-confessed drug addict who pleaded guilty to five charges of breaking and entering will learn his fate next month.
On Tuesday, Basil Melville Stewart, 44, of no fixed abode, asked Chief Justice Austin Ward for his sentencing to be adjourned so ...
DATE: May 09, 2002
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Two of the Island's TV companies will go head to head today in a bid to resolve a long-running dispute involving claims of programme piracy and damages.
Telecommunications Minister Renee Webb will act as broker as Bermuda Broadcasting Company and Cab...
DATE: May 08, 2002
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Patriot tax legislation in the US - which could adversely affect companies that reincorporate in Bermuda - has a real chance of being passed in to law according to a New York Times report on Monday.
The story written by David Rosenbaum, said: "The le...
DATE: May 08, 2002
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New school for boys planned
An small private school for boys may be open in Hamilton Parish as early as next September.
An application has been submitted to the Planning Department for a change of use of a Sleepy Hollow Drive outreach facility to a p...
DATE: May 08, 2002
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Police Commissioner Jonathan Smith and Works and Engineering Minister Alex Scott are to release a joint statement this week about the apparent U-turn in Government's stand over St. George's Police Station.
Mr. Scott told The Royal Gazette last night ...
DATE: May 08, 2002
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A clinical study on the prevention of diabetes Bermuda is participating in is emerging to be as much a public health campaign as a research project, Hamilton Rotarians heard yesterday.
Dr. Shane Marshall - the principal sub-investigator for the DREAM...
DATE: May 08, 2002
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