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Pupils at a small school have raised a huge amount of money to help save two pieces of open space from development.
St. George's Preparatory School — which has just 160 students — collected $10,500 for the Buy Back Bermuda scheme after launching a fu...
DATE: Jun 27, 2008
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Government pushed through a bill setting up a day's public holiday for National Heroes Day in October and scrapping the Queen's Birthday holiday in the Senate yesterday.
The vote was won six to four with independent Senator Walwyn Hughes voting again...
DATE: Jun 26, 2008
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A student disturbed by the number of recent deaths on Bermuda's roads has come up with a plan of action to save lives.
Justin Brangman has sent a two-page document to the chairman of the Road Safety Council detailing how he believes the Island could ...
DATE: Jun 26, 2008
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A day tagging sharks and a bicycle ride through Vietnam are just some of the prizes up for grabs at a bonfire beach party this weekend.
The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) is inviting Islanders of all ages to join in the fun-filled event a...
DATE: Jun 26, 2008
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As Whitney Institute prepares to close its doors for the final time today, Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons called for one last effort to be made to save the doomed school.
Dr. Gibbons urged the Ministry of Education and Whitney Educational Tr...
DATE: Jun 26, 2008
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The Mayor of Hamilton assured voters yesterday that the city was in safe hands — despite a recent string of resignations from councillors and staff members.
Sutherland Madeiros told The Royal Gazette that the 213-year-old municipality would weather t...
DATE: Jun 26, 2008
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Impaired man followed Police to help drunk friend who had been arrested
A Pembroke man who claimed he was going to the aid of his drunk friend was arrested after Police suspected he was drink-driving as well.
Armindo Ferreira, 24, of Parsons Road, p...
DATE: Jun 26, 2008
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Shadow Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley has blasted Government for riding roughshod over a binding tribunal on Police pay and has predicted it could spark sick-outs and a work to rule.
Mr. Dunkley pointed to a section in the Police Act which sa...
DATE: Jun 26, 2008
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Immigration Minister David Burch is urging Cabinet to introduce an English competency policy for guest workers after complaints about employees who can't communicate. And he also warned that Government would be coming after employers who harboured il...
DATE: Jun 26, 2008
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Work permit backlogs have been slashed since Government opted to return incomplete applications, Immigration Minister David Burch said yesterday.
He said since March, when he announced there were 4,000 applications on hold because of missing informat...
DATE: Jun 26, 2008
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