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Hurricane Michael passed less than 200 nautical miles to the northwest of the Island around 6 p.m. yesterday, packing top sustained winds of 75 knots, with gusts to 90 knots.
Hurricane force winds extended 25 miles from the centre and tropical storm ...
DATE: Oct 19, 2000
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Bermuda Bar Association President Richard Hector yesterday called for judges to be swiftly appointed to deal with the backlog of court cases.
Mr. Hector spoke out after another trial was again delayed this week because of a shortage of judges and con...
DATE: Oct 19, 2000
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further meetings planned, The Royal Gazette has learned.
After criticism in the media and from the public, the last meeting concluded four weeks ago with a reduction in numbers as Police and community negotiators were near a breakthrough in ending ti...
DATE: Oct 19, 2000
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of the procedures. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have told us and all the media here officially that the original intention and request of your Government was to use the Order in Council without going through any other parliamentary proce...
DATE: Oct 19, 2000
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winds of 65 knots and gusts to 80 knots.
The storm was located 350 nautical miles to the west-south-west of Bermuda yesterday afternoon and is expected to make its closest point of approach at 2 a.m. tomorrow, when the centre will pass 209 miles to t...
DATE: Oct 18, 2000
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to release its Civil Service Review -- accusing them of being "contemptuous and disrespectful'' toward the public.
Mr. Barritt said the people are entitled to know what is contained in a review carried out by the UK Civil Service College for the PLP ...
DATE: Oct 18, 2000
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Three fishermen were given suspended sentences and fined $12,000 each yesterday for using illegal fish pots in a sophisticated scheme to avoid Marine Police.
Andrew Daniel Farias, 34, Michael David Barnes, 40, and Michael Stephan Joel, 43, had origin...
DATE: Oct 18, 2000
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Government will continue publishing students' test scores in the present format and will resist the temptation of setting out a "pecking order'' of school performance, pledged Education Minister Milton Scott yesterday.
Sen. Scott was replying to Shad...
DATE: Oct 18, 2000
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release the Civil Service Review is timely.
Government has not yet officially released the review, a draft copy of which was obtained and reported on by the media in January.
That report said Bermuda was "overgoverned'', adding that reducing the numb...
DATE: Oct 18, 2000
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months of increases. The acting Minister of Finance announced that gas will drop by 4.3 cents a litre to $1.23.5.
Diesel also falls, by 2.9 cents to $1.02.5 a litre, and kerosene decreases by 2.4 cents a litre to 82.7 cents. The reductions come after...
DATE: Oct 18, 2000
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