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Government should have spent more time addressing social problems instead of just concentrating on how to punish criminals, Progressive Labour Party Senator Walton Brown said yesterday.
The Senator bemoaned his party's failure to introduce laws to st...
DATE: Aug 03, 2010
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Cup Match spectators who slid across the pitch when play was cancelled due to rain behaved abominably, according to Government senator Marc Bean.
He told the Upper Chamber he watched in horror on Thursday afternoon as tourists and Bermudians alike de...
DATE: Aug 03, 2010
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An information session on land licences by the Ministry of Immigration had only two confirmed attendees, Senator David Burch said yesterday.
The Government Senate leader said residents had claimed he "would not listen to reason" however few had taken...
DATE: Aug 03, 2010
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Just one motorist was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving over the Cup Match holiday and there were no serious accidents.
Anti drink-drive campaign CADA said it was pleased with the news, but asked Police to step up traffic checks nonetheless.
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DATE: Aug 03, 2010
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A young man stole a woman's BlackBerry after threatening her with a bladed article on the Railway Trail.
The incident happened at 11.30 a.m. on Wednesday as the 37-year-old Warwick woman walked west along the track in Paget, near its junction with Or...
DATE: Aug 02, 2010
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Government could have been better prepared for the worst three-month drought to affect the Island in almost 50 years, according to a local water engineer.
Ian Saunders has analysed data for monthly rainfall for the last 47 years which shows that Apri...
DATE: Aug 02, 2010
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Heavy rain caused a giant oil and water spill at Belco, leaving a nearby homeowner with a 7,200 gallon slick in his garden.
The problem stemmed from several inches of rain that's fallen in the past few days. The water flooded a tank where waste oil i...
DATE: Aug 02, 2010
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Upper Crust has apologised to patrons affected by a software glitch which caused nine months of food bills to be taken out of their bank accounts at once.
Restaurant owner Marico Thomas said the problems began last September and only affected Upper C...
DATE: Aug 02, 2010
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Bermuda will press ahead with Anti Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) for delinquent youths, despite plans to axe them in England and Wales.
Attorney General Kim Wilson said that although the orders have proved controversial there, she believes they wil...
DATE: Aug 02, 2010
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Bermuda's outdated electoral map — which many believed had been dumped — could still be used in the unlikely event outgoing Premier Ewart Brown calls a summer General Election.
Dr. Brown had suggested an election could not happen until a redrawn map,...
DATE: Aug 02, 2010
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