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The bill to give Bermudians British passports and the right to live and work in the United Kingdom and European Union passed its final parliamentary obstacle and is likely to become law in the first half of next year.
The Overseas Territories Bill no...
DATE: Nov 24, 2001
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In a heated attack in the House of Assembly last night, Tourism Minister David Allen claimed Shadow Tourism Minister David Dodwell's hotel would have "gone bust" without the Hotel Concessions Act.
A furious Mr. Allen said that during a phone conversa...
DATE: Nov 24, 2001
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St. George's is hoping to attract Christmas shoppers by offering a $500 prize draw at the weekly Christmas festival, which kicks off next Saturday.
The festival, which is now in its second year and runs for the first three Saturdays of December, will...
DATE: Nov 24, 2001
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MPs passed a bill to ensure minimum standards in multiple dwelling units yesterday giving Government powers to condemn housing unfit for human habitation.
Housing Minister Nelson Bascome said the Bermuda Housing Amendment Act 2001 was the result of r...
DATE: Nov 24, 2001
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The department of Consumer Affairs deals with more than 2,000 complaints and inquiries a year and Minister of Community Affairs and Sport, Randolph Horton yesterday announced that next week will be the Consumer Affairs week.
Several initiatives have ...
DATE: Nov 24, 2001
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Government is meeting the parents of special needs children to assess how to deal with their problems, but no decision has been made about whether to put them in separate schools, Education Minister Paula Cox said last night.
She was responding to sh...
DATE: Nov 24, 2001
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The United Bermuda Party has attacked Senator David Burch for dragging race into the debate over whether Bermuda should join Caricom - the Caribbean Community and Common Market.
In the Senate on Wednesday Sen. Burch said Bermuda had a history of bein...
DATE: Nov 24, 2001
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A pitbull left clinging to life after a brutal knife attack while it was tethered at its kennel is now a picture of health - one year after vets fought to bring him back from the brink of death.
Max, or Maxwell as he is now known, has doubled his wei...
DATE: Nov 24, 2001
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The UBPplans to "spend sometime" on four of the ten points to be raised during today's House of Assembly session, said Opposition Whip Cole Simons.
The UBP is anticipating debate on payroll and housing matters while the other eight items on the Order...
DATE: Nov 23, 2001
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The man who was held in jail for allegedly importing nearly a kilo of cocaine from Jamaica in rum bottles, walked out of court a free man for the first time in more than two years, after winning his Court of Appeal case yesterday.
Clifton Hopeton Mor...
DATE: Nov 23, 2001
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