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Weather forecasters insisted that they had given adequate warnings about the storm which ripped across the Island with hurricane force winds on Thursday night, but did concede this type of rapidly developing low pressure system is hard to predict by ...
DATE: Oct 13, 2001
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The majority of hotels on the Island emerged unscathed from Thursday's storm but St. George's Club in the East End and Cambridge Beaches and Pompano in the West End were all damaged.
"Quite a few chunks of our roof came down right in the front by the...
DATE: Oct 13, 2001
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A violent criminal who robbed the Bank of Bermuda of $5,000 threatened yesterday to kill Acting Senior Magistrate Carlisle Greaves after he sent him to Supreme Court to be sentenced.
Junius Caines, who has a string of convictions for violence, appear...
DATE: Oct 12, 2001
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Freak high winds pulled a bollard from a St. George's dock and sent cruise ship The Norwegian Majesty spinning loose from its mooring yesterday.
One port worker suffered cuts to his hands as he struggled to free the still-intact stern ropes after the...
DATE: Oct 12, 2001
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Parents, lawyers and politicians are calling for the laws to ban the possession of child pornography.
Owning kiddie porn is outlawed in the UK, Canada, and America, but loopholes in Bermuda's Obscene Publications Act 1973 mean people caught with it h...
DATE: Oct 12, 2001
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Last-minute changes will be made to the upcoming Throne Speech as a result of the September 11 attacks on the United States. Premier Jennifer Smith, in a television interview last night said that the attacks were going to have legislative repercussio...
DATE: Oct 12, 2001
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Red tape and the terror attack in New York have combined to push back the arrival of the new fast ferries until next year.
The first of the $2.5 million catamarans was supposed to arrive at the end of December but it is now due to come in March.
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DATE: Oct 12, 2001
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One of two men jointly accused of the manslaughter of Jermaine (Red) Pitcher has changed his plea to guilty.
Jamal (Knolly) Robinson, 24, has had a change of heart after his initial trial for the offence was aborted on Tuesday.
Robinson has been rema...
DATE: Oct 12, 2001
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Government is polling business, the public and its own workers to find out what services should be offered via the Internet.
Currently firms can submit race reporting forms on line and enter their names at the Registrar of Companies - the public can ...
DATE: Oct 12, 2001
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Noisy motorcross riders and scramblers who were trespassing on private property for 13 years will no longer be a disturbance to residents in the area, thanks to mediation by constituent MP Dale Butler.
Mr. Butler, who represents the Warwick East area...
DATE: Oct 12, 2001
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