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Inflation is steadily edging up in Bermuda, with households on the Island paying on average some 2.6 per cent more for goods and services than they did a year ago.
The higher-than-normal rate of inflation was revealed in the latest figures published ...
DATE: Sep 14, 1999
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Teachers and parents have to share the blame for the Island's poor standards in reading, Opposition leader Pamela Gordon said yesterday.
And Ms Gordon defended her party's record on education while in Government.
Ms Gordon said: "You can provide fund...
DATE: Sep 14, 1999
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Both sides in the ACE building construction dispute upped the stakes yesterday with the Bermuda Industrial Union moving a step closer to calling an Island-wide strike and the construction firms launching a writ against the union.
The BIU is calling a...
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publishing schedule, it emerged yesterday.
When Environment Minister Arthur Hodgson discussed the paper in April he said he hoped it would be published within the following three months.
But the number of submissions received by the Department of Agr...
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an oil spill are set to begin legal moves to get it reduced.
The fine was handed out at Magistrates' Court on Wednesday to the captain of the Atlantic Forest for spilling "hundreds'' of gallons of oil at Five Fathom Hole, one and a quarter miles off ...
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Government should re-open the bidding for what could be the Island's biggest tourism development project in many years, it has been claimed.
That is the opinion of a representative of one of the original groups who bid for the Morgan's Harbour projec...
DATE: Sep 14, 1999
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of summer for the tourism industry.
A decrease in air arrivals from the US and Canada compared to last July and on the year so far, led to the lowest number of airline visitors since April.
And the Island's small and large hotels bore the brunt of th...
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allowed to cross-examine her during his trial after he was refused legal aid.
The trial was set to take place yesterday after almost 19 months of waiting.
Since the time of the incident, which occurred in January of last year, the defendant, 59, who ...
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A Government-initiated investigation into the dangers of radiation emissions from cell towers has discovered that workers at several sites are at risk of radiation exposure.
And the report, carried out for Government by Arizona-based Roger Choquette ...
DATE: Sep 14, 1999
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with Hurricane Floyd pounded the South Shore.
A Bermuda Harbour Radio spokesman yesterday reported 15 foot high seas well offshore and heavy surf inshore.
Hurricane Floyd is not a threat to Bermuda at this time. It is a Category Four storm with winds...
DATE: Sep 14, 1999
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Burgess