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Dock workers got a shock when they opened a crate and found a raccoon inside yesterday.
The masked and stripy-tailed creature was lurking inside a container shipped from Baltimore to Bermuda Air Conditioning's depot in Pembroke.
Christopher Nash, eng...
DATE: Sep 17, 2008
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US Consul General Gregory Slayton yesterday warned a car park on a lawn at the Premier's residence Clifton was vital to keep visitors away from a road which is "literally a death trap".
Mr. Slayton said the proposal — which prompted an angry response...
DATE: Sep 17, 2008
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Opposition Leader Kim Swan said yesterday there was cause for optimism that parliamentary committees would hold their meetings in public in the future.
The St. George's West MP said a decision by the Rules and Privileges Committee of the House of Ass...
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Gas prices will increase by 5.8 cents a litre as from today.
The Ministry of Finance sets the maximum price of petroleum products from September 16 as follows:
Gasoline: +5.8 cents/litre
Diesel: -4.1 cents/litre
The fuel price changes mean the maximu...
DATE: Sep 17, 2008
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Some doctors are still waiting for payment on Government Health Insurance Plan (HIP) claims from 2005 – one month after the Health Minister announced that the backlog was cleared.
And although the majority of doctors said they were happy with the pro...
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Bermuda Regiment soldiers yesterday flew out to Turks and Caicos on their mission to help repair damage wreaked by Hurricane Ike.
Two United States Coast Guard planes carrying 52 personnel, including some from the Parks Department, as well as equipme...
DATE: Sep 17, 2008
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Finance Minister Paula Cox fears the turmoil in the world’s financial markets will have “potential employment repercussions’’ in Bermuda.
In a statement this afternoon, she also said that due to the current crisis, prospects for economic growth in Be...
DATE: Sep 17, 2008
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Opposition senators will today urge Government to amend a new law allowing the former Club Med site to be turned into a luxury five-star resort.
The United Bermuda Party wants the Park Hyatt (St. George's) Resort Act 2008 to stipulate that any lease ...
DATE: Sep 17, 2008
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Could do better — that is the verdict of the latest Terra Nova results.
Students have made progress in language and reading but are failing in mathematics, and overall school results are lagging behind the US average. A Ministry of Education report s...
DATE: Sep 17, 2008
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Calls for a Joint Select Committee to implement Public Access to Information legislation are on today's Senate agenda.
The Order of Business for this morning's Upper House includes a Motion by Senate Opposition Leader Michael Dunkley, notice of which...
DATE: Sep 17, 2008
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