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A smooth tailwind carried Bermuda's new Governor Sir John Vereker to the Island an hour early yesterday.
The British Airways flight carrying the new Commander-in-Chief and Lady Vereker hit the tarmac shortly before 5:30 p.m.
“While now is not the occ...
DATE: Apr 10, 2002
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Tourism Minister David Allen will be squiring a group of 250 overseas travel agents around the Island over the next three days as part of an initiative to promote tourism.
The travel agents from Canada and the United States will participate in an arr...
DATE: Apr 10, 2002
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A female Police officer told a court how a man attacked her with a burnt branch after she told him to put his bonfire out.
Burnell Howard Wentworth Cross, 59, of Scott's Hill Road, Sandys, denied grievous bodily harm with intent during the first day ...
DATE: Apr 10, 2002
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John Perry is proof that life really does go on after death.
The 57-year-old grandfather from Boston has been given renewed life after receiving the donated heart of teenage student Darren Minors, who died at the age of 18 in a bike accident.
Mr. Per...
DATE: Apr 09, 2002
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The Island's immigration policy is failing and needs to be changed because qualified Bermudians cannot get work, Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU) leader Derrick Burgess said last night.
Mr. Burgess, a Progressive Labour Party backbencher and member of ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2002
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Kevin Way was just 32 when he suffered a motorcycle accident that would change his life for ever.
A trader for Lines Overseas Management (LOM), he was riding along South Shore in May, 1999 when he blacked out and crashed his bike into a wall, breakin...
DATE: Apr 09, 2002
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Demand for the screenings of `When Voices Rise...', a documentary about Bermuda's 1959 Theatre Boycott, has been so high that film festival organisers have added a third venue for the film.
The film will be making its world premiere at the Southside ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2002
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Bermuda has one of the highest ratios of chronic kidney failure in the world - with 67 people currently receiving dialysis treatment.
Some 16 people are on a kidney transplant waiting list and are among those attending the dialysis unit every week.
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DATE: Apr 09, 2002
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Chemicals such as pesticides and fertilisers are the likely cause of a dramatic increase in deformities in Bermuda's toads to levels worse than anything seen in the United States, scientists have found.
And experts worry that the problems besetting a...
DATE: Apr 09, 2002
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Kidney transplants in Bermuda by the numbers:
11 The youngest ever kidney transplant recipient on the Island was an 11-year-old girl.
16 There are 16 people in Bermuda on a kidney transplant waiting list who are receiving dialysis in the meantime.
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DATE: Apr 09, 2002
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