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Parliament ended abruptly last night after the Opposition UBP party stormed out in protest when the Speaker of the House refused to initiate debate over a motion to be moved by Opposition MP Maxwell Burgess.
And questions have again raised over Speak...
DATE: Dec 08, 2001
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The Opposition United Bermuda Party is insisting on a bipartisan examination of the pros and cons of Bermuda becoming an Associate Member of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM).
UBP leader Grant Gibbons repeated the call yesterday in ...
DATE: Dec 08, 2001
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All residents are being urged on Tuesday, the three month anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, to pause for a moment to remember those who died.
US President George W. Bush is encouraging nations around the world to...
DATE: Dec 08, 2001
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Bermuda's legislators will likely debate an Opposition motion to form a bipartisan committee to study the pros and cons of associate membership in CARICOM, the Caribbean Community and Common Market today.
Government, which is pro CARICOM, has already...
DATE: Dec 07, 2001
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While close to 62 percent of Bermuda residents support some kind of Government subsidy for local music radio programmes, the idea is drawing a mixed response from broadcasting executives.
The statistic is just one of the results of a recently conduct...
DATE: Dec 07, 2001
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Livery cycle companies in Bermuda are hoping to meet with Police over plans to install speed cameras around the Island - which could see a number of tourists receiving fixed penalty fines.
The four rental companies are meeting next week and plan to d...
DATE: Dec 07, 2001
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Rev. Goodwin Smith is to be replaced as the chairman of the Human Rights Commission.
New Minister of Community Affairs Randolph Horton confirmed reports that the clergyman will not be reappointed as Commission chair when the board's term ends at year...
DATE: Dec 07, 2001
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Bermuda's electoral reform process took a step forward yesterday with the announcement that the Boundaries Commission might be ready to hold its first meetings with the public during the week of January 28.
Commission chairman Sir Frank Blackman urge...
DATE: Dec 07, 2001
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Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU) vice president Chris Furbert has decided not to challenge President Derrick Burgess for the leadership of the 4,000-strong union. But it is likely that he will make a bid for the presidency at the next delegates confere...
DATE: Dec 07, 2001
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The cost of health care in Bermuda has increased 100 percent over the past decade due to greater technology, an aging population and more demanding patients, it was claimed yesterday.
The Health Insurance Association of Bermuda (HIAB) spoke out follo...
DATE: Dec 07, 2001
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