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When The Royal Gazette launched its A Right to Know: Giving People Power campaign in January, one of the aims was to highlight for readers what they would be allowed to know if they lived in a country with freedom of information.
Millions of citizens...
DATE: Nov 13, 2008
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Premier Ewart Brown officially unveiled the new Transport Control Department facility in Hamilton yesterday, promising that it would lead to a far more efficient service for motorists.
The multimillion dollar North Street facility was completed four ...
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Seniors are being encouraged to pen their experiences to mark the 30th anniversary of Age Concern and Bermuda's 400th birthday.
The Write It Down Project aims to gather people's stories on what it means to be a senior, with plans to publish such refl...
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Premier Ewart Brown yesterday sent a congratulatory letter to President-Elect Barack Obama, stressing the "critical role" the Island continues to play in the US economy.
And Dr. Brown also offered to help strengthen ties between Bermuda and the US, s...
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Health Minister Nelson Bascome encouraged the public to continue efforts to adopt healthy lifestyles at the Well Bermuda Symposium yesterday morning.
He said that too many people still think of death, disease, diet and exercise as the "full picture" ...
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Premier Ewart Brown has stamped on bizarre, untrue claims in Asian media that he has offered refuge to Thaksin Shinawatra, the exiled former prime minister of Thailand.
Newspapers in Thaksin's home country have been speculating where the billionaire,...
DATE: Nov 13, 2008
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A Hamilton Parish man admitted to stealing three pumpkins and a bottle of liquor, saying he was "messed up" at the time.
Brian Percival Gibbons, of W.B.'s Way, pleaded guilty to stealing three pumpkins weighing 120 pounds from DeSilva's Vegetable Far...
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More than 800 women and girls helped raise more than $37,000 for the Family Centre through a 5,000-metre run and walk last month.
The annual event, sponsored by PartnerRe, has now generated more than $200,000 since it began in 1998, with cash going t...
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A condominium complex with a Longtail-themed 'winged roof' has been proposed on a main road into Hamilton.
Harbour Development has submitted a planning application for a five-storey building, to be built on a car park between the East Broadway Shell ...
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After at least three reports and five years of research the Bermuda Hospitals Board revealed initial plans for a 25-year phased-in process for the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
Only the first five years of the plan, which are estimated to cost $...
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