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A last-minute bid by the Opposition United Bermuda Party to get Governor Thorold Masefield to delay signing the controversial bill to abolish the death penalty ended in farce yesterday.
The UBP was putting the finishing touches to a letter pleading w...
DATE: Dec 24, 1999
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born''), by columnist Michael J. McManus, talks about a book which argues that Christianity has had an enormously positive impact on the world we know today.
The United States and democracy as we know it would be very different if it were it not for ...
DATE: Dec 24, 1999
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British Airways flight from London, according to Postmaster General Clevelyn Crichlow.
Bermuda Post Office officials alerted the attention of US airport officials to the lack of express mail being sent to Bermuda and the bags of mail were found to ha...
DATE: Dec 24, 1999
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Bermuda Industrial Union president Derrick Burgess has blasted Precision Construction for ignoring binding arbitration which required them to reinstate three sacked workers.
He claimed that despite the Trade Disputes Tribunal ruling earlier this mont...
DATE: Dec 24, 1999
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capital punishment Government Senate Leader Milton Scott played down claims from opposition senators that the drafting of the abolition of capital punishment bill was flawed, saying that amendments to bills could always be made at a later date.
And h...
DATE: Dec 24, 1999
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on VSB news that he decided to vote in favour of the bill abolishing the death penalty and corporal punishment, only after receiving a note from the Premier.
"I've never heard anything so ridiculous,'' Sen. Oughton said. "I made the decision on my ow...
DATE: Dec 24, 1999
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Sidney Gibbons, 35, of Harlem Heights, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to the charge.
But he denied the charge of stealing two bottles of rum worth $40.15 from the Shelly Bay MarketPlace on September 19.
For the second charge he was released on ...
DATE: Dec 23, 1999
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Commission for Unity and Racial Equality more powers to examine the racial make-up of company workforces has shed valuable light on an emotionally difficult area of Bermuda life.
The bill allows CURE to get information on the make-up of a workforce a...
DATE: Dec 23, 1999
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helping out the Women's Resource Centre (WRC) earlier this month in a fund raising effort.
The senior cadet corp spread out across Hamilton on December 10 for the WRC's Tag Day and helped it raise more than $6,000.
"It was a positive image for the Re...
DATE: Dec 23, 1999
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additions to their property with the passage of changes to planning regulations.
Senators passed the Development and Planning (General Development) Order 1999 allowing minor alterations like satellite dishes, solar energy panels, and small extensions...
DATE: Dec 23, 1999
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