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A passport stolen from a Bermudian was at the centre of an immigration court case in the United Arab Emirates.
Miriam Mumodu, a 26-year-old Nigerian woman, used a stolen British passport issued in Bermuda to get into the UAE, according to Gulf News.c...
DATE: Jul 15, 2008
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A mentally-ill prisoner has hanged himself at Westgate – four months after a judge ruled he was being kept there in unsuitable and disturbing conditions.
Lorenzo Robinson, 28, a paranoid schizophrenic who suffered from depression, was found dead in h...
DATE: Jul 15, 2008
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Government has tabled a Bill permitting health services to take place at places other than the hospital as it moves to setting up satellite health centres at both ends of the Island.
The Bermuda Hospitals Board Amendment (number two) Bill 2008 will e...
DATE: Jul 15, 2008
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An all-in-one website for Government Health Insurance Plan (HIP) holders was launched this month to make it "user-friendly".
And the pension portion of the website will "go-live" shortly, according to Valerie Robinson-James, the Acting Permanent Secr...
DATE: Jul 15, 2008
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Premier Ewart Brown believes a "culture of automobile dependency" exists in Bermuda and has led to more than 22,000 cars on the Island.
The Premier introduced the Motor Car Amendment Act 2008 and the Land and Tenant Act 2008 in the House of Assembly ...
DATE: Jul 15, 2008
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While most students are content to spend their summer break relaxing, 13 Bermudian students are taking part in a ten-week expedition in Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
The expedition is a part of the Raleigh International Bermuda programme, and comes at th...
DATE: Jul 15, 2008
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Tourism arrivals continue to plummet with a 22.9 percent drop in May.
The new figures, revealed in Parliamentary Questions, follow disappointing first quarter figures with a 2.3 percent rise in February but year-on-year declines of 13.2 percent in Ja...
DATE: Jul 15, 2008
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Corporation of Hamilton councillors Kathryn Gibbons and Pamela Ferreira will vie to become alderman at next Monday's city by-election.
And six nominations have been received for the three vacant common councillor seats, including one for Graeme Outer...
DATE: Jul 15, 2008
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Torrential rain and 70 mph winds battered Bermuda yesterday as Tropical Storm Bertha — still poised to become a hurricane last night — passed over the Island.
Trees collapsed onto cars, thousands of homes suffered power outages and all flights were c...
DATE: Jul 15, 2008
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A drug addict was given a suspended sentence in Magistrates' Court after admitting to stealing from a woman who gave her a lift in her car.
Jacqueline Dillas, 43, of Railway Trail, Southampton, pleaded guilty to stealing a woman's purse and cash valu...
DATE: Jul 14, 2008
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