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The Bermuda Regiment came under heavy fire from a Magistrate after a ground-breaking decision to award costs to a conscientious objector hauled before the courts for failing to do his army duty.
In his written judgment awarding costs to reluctant sol...
DATE: Jun 17, 1998
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Finance Minister Grant Gibbons has conceded he was caught by surprise at the recent decision of Parliament's Private Bills Committee, which did not support the Bank of Bermuda's waiver petition for an exemption from the 60/40 rule.
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DATE: Jun 17, 1998
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Seven drug experts visited the Island last week to support Bermuda's first addiction counselling certification board.
The National Drug Commission created the Bermuda Addiction Certification Board (BACB) last year in consultation with the Health and ...
DATE: Jun 17, 1998
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The third accomplice in the 1995 Bank of Butterfield security van heist has been ordered to spend seven years in prison.
Harron Lee Powell Evans, of Happy Valley Road, Devonshire, was sentenced yesterday in the Supreme Court after pleading guilty to ...
DATE: Jun 17, 1998
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admitting calling in a hoax fire alarm.
And Magistrate Edward King told a gallery filled with family and firefighters that Gladwyn Shawn Grant's actions were "dangerous to put it mildly and he knew what he was doing was wrong''.
Grant, 31, of St. Aug...
DATE: Jun 17, 1998
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high-ranking international qualifications.
And the new Bermuda Addiction Certification Board is now launching a careers programme to help young Bermudians who want to train as rehabilitation experts.
The BACB and Bermuda College are co-ordinating spe...
DATE: Jun 17, 1998
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severe dog attack is cause for concern. According to the man who was savaged by two dogs and then treated at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, the Police told his wife that officers were off for the long holiday weekend. As Dennis Robinson, the pers...
DATE: Jun 17, 1998
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yacht moored off St. George's last night, causing up to $20,000 damage.
Some 29 firefighters were ferried by Marine Police to the Hallelujah , moored at Powder Hole, at 7.55 p.m. after a blaze was discovered in the engine room.
The fire was put out b...
DATE: Jun 17, 1998
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recent decision of Parliament's Private Bills Committee, which did not support the Bank of Bermuda's waiver petition for an exemption from the 60/40 rule.
And there was a hint this week that the bank not only has other options in seeking the exemptio...
DATE: Jun 17, 1998
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David Fox, Business Editor
dismissed by a Government Minister.
Youth and Sport Minister John Barritt spoke out after Opposition MP Renee Webb raised complaints from a constituent in the House of Assembly.
Ms Webb said a visitor to Paget Island -- one of several Government camp...
DATE: Jun 17, 1998
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