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By Magnus Henagulph A single mother who was sacked from her job at a Baptist Ministry's nursery when she fell pregnant will hear the closing arguments at the Human Rights Board of Inquiry into her case today.
The final witnesses gave evidence yester...
DATE: May 31, 2000
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A former addict who used drugs for 15 years has heaped praise upon the overseas facility which helped him turn his life around.
Marvin Brangman joined Fellowship Deliverance Ministries in LaGrange, Georgia, in November, 1999, and said he has been cle...
DATE: May 31, 2000
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A drug-busting group has not had its budget slashed by the National Drug Commission (NDC), Health and Social Services Minister Nelson Bascome has insisted.
And he said the Council for Alcohol and Drug Abuse (CADA) had its funding from the NDC boosted...
DATE: May 30, 2000
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
resume today after it was adjourned yesterday because a key witness was off the Island.
Noel Kenneth Bascome, of Friswell's Road, Pembroke, denies the charge and also pleaded not guilty to causing death by driving while impaired and failing to provid...
DATE: May 30, 2000
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A "bright and shining'' example to young people was called to the bar last week, as more than 100 people jammed a courtroom to look on.
Graham Simmons Jr. thanked his father saying: "Without my father's instruction there would be no cause for celebra...
DATE: May 30, 2000
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Trash collectors are skipping pick-ups across the Island in random industrial action because they claim they are being forced to handle garbage containing human and animal waste.
A number of people have complained during the last week that bags of tr...
DATE: May 30, 2000
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predictions are that 6,000 more jobs than Bermudian workers will be created in the next ten years if current economic trends continue.
By implication, this should mean 6,000 more non-Bermudians, plus their families, coming to the Island.
There are al...
DATE: May 30, 2000
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Nearly 70 years after he was killed in a fire, Percy Helme's family has returned to Bermuda to reclaim his unmarked grave.
Mr. Helme was an assistant barber on the Furness Bermuda Line cruise ship Bermuda and was the sole casualty of a 1931 fire that...
DATE: May 30, 2000
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Private schools have defended inflation-busting fee hikes as necessary to fund salary rises and equipment upgrades.
A selection of schools approached by The Royal Gazette all reported fee rises for next year which were well above the inflation rate o...
DATE: May 30, 2000
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Environmental campaigners in Bermuda have been given financial backing to carry out a ground-breaking study on marine pollution that will be circulated to other islands.
Keep Bermuda Beautiful's (KBB) chief executive Lennox Boodram has been given cas...
DATE: May 30, 2000
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