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Assembly got back to business after the Easter break.
Home Affairs and Public Safety Minister Paula Cox started debate by saying "the first role'' of citizens in a liberal democracy was to vote.
But she added: "The system of annual registration frust...
DATE: Apr 24, 1999
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dollars a year and requires major surgery, a new report has revealed.
And independent Government Auditor Larry Dennis in his latest audit paper demanded action to halt the cash haemorrhage from hospital accounts.
The Auditor's report, covering the fi...
DATE: Apr 24, 1999
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Tourism received a double boost yesterday as the latest figures showed an increase in air arrivals.
Overall numbers show a rise in March of ten percent, with US visitors rising by 15 percent in the same period -- for the first time since June last ye...
DATE: Apr 24, 1999
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sections 33 and 35 of the Insurance Act 1978 and in the matter of New Cap Reinsurance Corporation (Bermuda) Limited.
A writ was filed the matter of the Companies Act 1981 and in the matter of New Cap Reinsurance Corporation Holdings Limited.
A writ w...
DATE: Apr 23, 1999
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of the House of Assembly's summer session.
And the only item likely to be debated is the PLP's bill to abolish the annual registration of voters, together with associated legislation.
Government Whip Ottiwell Simmons said: "The abolition for annual r...
DATE: Apr 23, 1999
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civil rights for gays.
Development and Opportunity Minister Terry Lister did not rule out including sexual orientation in the Human Rights Act if there was sufficient demand.
And his Shadow Minister, UBP MP Allan Marshall said it was "a question of w...
DATE: Apr 23, 1999
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
refugees were due to leave earlier this week.
And there have been so many local donations of food, clothing and other essentials to the Medjugorje Peace Plan Group that a third container will soon be sent across the Atlantic.
Early efforts to ship th...
DATE: Apr 23, 1999
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heroin after an eleventh-hour change of plea.
Delicia Tucker, 27, of Rambling Lane, has been in prison since her arrest at Bermuda International Airport in February, 1998.
She was due to be sentenced in Supreme Court yesterday after pleading guilty t...
DATE: Apr 23, 1999
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A manpower shortage in the Bermuda Police Service may lead to summertime employment for former officers.
A spokesperson said Police officials first successfully experimented with the temporary initiative last summer.
At that time, two officers who le...
DATE: Apr 23, 1999
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The head of the Prison Officers union has stepped forward to defend the Island's wardens in the face of a rape accusation.
Saying officers have "complete and utter disdain'' for the way the investigation has been handled, Lynn Hall, has written to La...
DATE: Apr 23, 1999
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Patrick Burgess
