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Culture Minister Dale Butler has warned charities failing to file annual financial reports that they could be stripped of their charitable status.
Mr. Butler told the House of Assembly on Friday that 66 of the Island's 403 registered charities — or 1...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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Hundreds of people turned up in Flatts Village yesterday on the 50th anniversary of the first secret meeting, which helped change black history.
Onlookers were guided through the town, learning its history, which concluded, with a tour of the home of...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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Opposition Leader Kim Swan last night called for a "full-fledged" independent investigation into the cheques alleged to have been doctored in order to "frame" Premier Ewart Brown and Cabinet Minister Derrick Burgess.
Government revealed the discovery...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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Air and cruise arrivals were both down for 2008, Premier and Tourism Minister Ewart Brown announced today.
Revealing gloomy year-on-year statistics at a press conference, the Premier said the overall number of visitors for last year was 582,980 — dow...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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Johndell Cumberbatch is unlikely to ever forget how to spell exhilaration — his perfect execution of the word on Saturday night helped him win a Disney holiday for his family.
The eight-year-old East End Primary School pupil was the champion of Spell...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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Union chief Ed Ball yesterday questioned whether Premier Ewart Brown has "hard and fast evidence" to support his claim that civil servants may be to blame for a smear campaign involving falsified cheques.
Dr. Brown and Works and Engineering Minister ...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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Race adviser Rolfe Commissiong has hit back at critics of the Progressive Labour Party's rhetoric — and says it's understandable for blacks to vent their frustrations following a history of discrimination.
Mr. Commissiong insists more whites should v...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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Serpentine Road store burglarised
Cash was stolen from a Serpentine Road business overnight on Friday.
The complainant told Police that some time between 8.30 p.m. and 5.40 a.m. on Saturday, someone broke into an office and stole a quantity of cash. ...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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A student is appealing for the gift of language to assist a community in one of the poorest villages in the Caribbean.
Kristin Loving is asking the people of Bermuda to donate English language dictionaries to the Dominican Republic this summer.
The 2...
DATE: Feb 07, 2009
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Police are investigating two robberies when men were approached by groups of youths who punched or threatened their victims with a broken bottle.
In the first incident at 10.10 p.m. on Thursday, Police were called to Pitts Bay Road, in Pembroke, when...
DATE: Feb 07, 2009
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