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Campaigners against military conscription hope to meet British MPs visiting Bermuda as part of an inquiry into the governance of the overseas territories.
Bermudians Against the Draft submitted written evidence to the inquiry in November ¿ telling po...
DATE: Feb 04, 2008
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An American lawyer on gun possession charges appeared briefly at Magistrates' Court yesterday, when his case was adjourned for a week.
Gary Barket, 61, from Arkansas, who is charged with possessing two guns and ammunition, was told to reappear at the...
DATE: Feb 02, 2008
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The Royal Gazette published a story yesterday about students from Saltus getting stranded after being refused entry to France because of confusion over their passports.
Today we publish a useful list of numbers in case you are travelling abroad and n...
DATE: Feb 02, 2008
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The Royal Gazette today pledges to continue pressing Government on your behalf to pass public access to information legislation — despite there being no mention of it in yesterday's Throne Speech.
This newspaper's A Right to Know: Giving People Power...
DATE: Feb 02, 2008
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Free child care for children under four, better health coverage for seniors and interest-free loans to buy homes were the key elements of yesterday's Throne Speech as Government seeks to carry out election promises.
And there were new pledges to intr...
DATE: Feb 02, 2008
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Revitalising senior's health care topped the Throne Speech agenda and a commitment was made to building urgent care clinics previously promised for both ends of the Island.
FutureCare, which is to be the hallmark of the Government's plan to create a ...
DATE: Feb 02, 2008
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Police have raided a building in Court Street, seizing suspected stolen construction materials.
Officers from the Criminal Investigation Unit and Safer Streets team launched the operation at 3.15 p.m. on Wednesday, arriving in three Police cars, two ...
DATE: Feb 02, 2008
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"I am finally convinced we are not citizens in this country."
That was the damning verdict of disabled campaigner Willard Fox after there was no mention of help for disabled transport users in the Throne Speech.
Mr. Fox, who is wheelchair bound, had ...
DATE: Feb 02, 2008
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This is the full text of the Throne Speech delivered by Governor Sir Richard Gozney yesterday:
Henry Clay once said:
"The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer."
Over the past several months the Government has outline...
DATE: Feb 02, 2008
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Weekend ferry services have been slashed as Bermuda Industrial Union members agreed to work to rule in protest at Government's firing of drunk ferry pilot Dwayne Pearman.
Ferries were also down for most of yesterday morning as workers met to discuss ...
DATE: Feb 02, 2008
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