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An anti-drug youth organisation has taken a hard blow after one of its former members, Zephrya Gibbons, was convicted of importing $1.7 million worth of heroin and accused of "betraying her people".
PRIDE executive director Judith Burgess said: "Even...
DATE: Nov 07, 2001
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Government is working on a new aviation strategy for Bermuda in the wake of the September 11 attacks on the United States.
"There is an aviation strategy and I'll be making a statement to Parliament during the current session,'' Transport Minister Ew...
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Mount St. Agnes Academy will have its first sports field in its 112 year history thanks to funding from the Bank of Bermuda.
Sister Judith Rollo, the MSA principal, said the school will now have its own "field of dreams" when the facility opens next ...
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The price of diesel fuel may have inched up slightly but, as Transport Minister Ewart Brown put it "we're making black smoke disappear".
At a press conference yesterday, Dr. Brown and Environment Minister Dennis Lister said that sulphur free, environ...
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Director of the Bermuda Weather Service Roger Williams yesterday addressed members of the Hamilton Rotary Club and said forecasters in the US had taken a big interest in Storm Karen that hit last month.
He said in some ways, this year's hurricane sea...
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The case against three men accused of the stabbing death of Jermaine (Red) Pitcher might have collapsed had the charges not been reduced to manslaughter, the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) claimed last night.
The DPP's office iss...
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Dozens of well-wishers braved fowl weather last night to pay tribute to Dame Lois-Browne Evans at the launch of a biography of her life.
The veteran MP and Attorney General joked with the audience, packed with PLP parliamentarians, friends and family...
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The St. George's Foundation presented Premier Jennifer Smith and Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons with a gift set yesterday to kick off the organisation's Christmas season fundraising campaign.
The `Renovation' gift sets consist of a 2002 calendar ent...
DATE: Nov 07, 2001
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Career opportunities in the civil service are now more available than ever before thanks to a more flexible approach to recruitment and human resources management being implemented according to civil service head Stanley Oliver.
Mr. Oliver, who has b...
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Bermuda has the world's highest marriage rates and among the lowest divorce rates, according to the Economist magazine and also retains its place in the club of the world's most affluent and consumerist nations.
But it is also listed among the top si...
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