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Public Safety Minister Quinton Edness has been left red-faced over his announcement that tax payers will foot the medical bill for an athlete injured in a weekend brawl.
Mr. Edness made the decision on Monday after Zambian athlete and Bermuda Race We...
DATE: Jan 21, 1998
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Gareth Finighan
When Pembroke West voters went to by-election polls last year to elect a new MP, fewer than ten percent of eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 35 turned out to vote, according to at least one of the candidates.
Yet the 6,117 eligible voters ag...
DATE: Jan 21, 1998
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Sadly, Charles Mulinga's visit to Bermuda won't be remembered for his emphatic victory in Saturday's International 10K.
Instead, it will be remembered for the vicious beating he suffered on Sunday night outside a Hamilton nightclub after an evening o...
DATE: Jan 21, 1998
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yesterday offered bail of $50,000 by a judge in Atlanta.
But Wolde Place and Austin Simons were both remanded in custody pending someone coming up with the cash and ordered to appear again at Fulton County Magistrates' Court next week.
According to l...
DATE: Jan 21, 1998
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The emergency medical technician who treated an erratic Michael Burgess claimed yesterrday that a Police officer struck the ailing man.
And the EMT called the officer's demeanour "sick'' when the detective raised his fists in "victory'' after restrai...
DATE: Jan 21, 1998
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Canadian William LeDrew will take over the post of Collector of Customs on Monday.
Finance Minister Grant Gibbons revealed last night that Mr. LeDrew had been handed a three-year contract to replace Gerry Ardis, who retired last September.
The positi...
DATE: Jan 21, 1998
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Changes in the National Drug Commission have forced the agency to delay the release of results from its annual schools drug survey.
The National Drug Survey of high school and middle school students was scheduled to be released in November last year....
DATE: Jan 21, 1998
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that a new drive is being launched to catch them.
Senior officers yesterday unveiled a fresh campaign aimed at putting the skids under drivers who fail to pay tax on their cars and bikes.
Chief Insp. Roger Kendall said new laws came into effect earli...
DATE: Jan 21, 1998
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Instead of the fleeced-lined, hooded jacket which is a part of the school uniform, students will wear a zipped-up hoodless jacket.
The Royal Gazette has been told the change was due to security officers' inability to identify students who misbehaved....
DATE: Jan 21, 1998
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"shop local'' and support Island producers.
And it is believed fed-up farmers are having to dump produce like cabbages because they cannot find buyers.
But now Bermuda's tiny agricultural sector is set to dig its heels in to try and force a change in...
DATE: Jan 21, 1998
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