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The PLP has won the General Election.
Like 2003 the results were 22 seats for the PLP and 14 seats to the UBP — though four changed hands.
In the biggest shock of the election former Opposition leader Michael Dunkley lost his bid to unseat Patrice Mi...
DATE: Dec 18, 2007
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Keisha Douglas knows her stuff when it comes to public schools.
The new president of the Bermuda Union of Teachers has worked in education for 13 years, mainly as a teacher but also as a mathematics adviser at the Ministry of Education.
She was made ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Premier Ewart Brown tonight reached out to core Progressive Labour Party supporters with pledges to help the poor, avoid giving thousands of foreigners Bermudian status and refrain from introducing "draconian" measures on crime.
In a televised electi...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Education Minister Randy Horton has a goal and it's one he believes can be achieved by the time the next general election comes around.
"We now have about 40 percent of children in public schools," he said. "I'm looking at by then to have 70 percent ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Freshmen from Princeton have visited the Island to get a first-hand look at how climate change could affect the oceans.
The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) hosted 12 students for the seminar 'Signals, Yardsticks and Tipping Points of Globa...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Premier Ewart Brown last night reached out to core Progressive Labour Party supporters with pledges to help the poor, avoid giving thousands of foreigners Bermudian status and refrain from introducing "draconian" measures on crime.
In a televised ele...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Tim Smith
The UBP has accused the PLP of twisting the figures on its election pledge to grant Bermudian status to long-term residents and their children.
The party has admitted that previous UBP administrations failed to address the rights of long term residen...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Housing activist Sheelagh Cooper had high hopes when the PLP first won power in Bermuda.
But in nine years she has seen the housing problem spiral out of control amid seeming indifference from the party which had promised so much.
Mrs. Cooper says li...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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A motorcyclist snatched a handbag from a woman as she climbed into her car.
Police say the thief drove up beside the victim as she returned to her vehicle outside Bank of Bermuda in Bermudiana Road, at about 10 p.m. on Saturday.
The rider then escape...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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A new GP3 has been driving up and down the roads in the run-up to the election — but this one isn't a plush, dark blue Government car.
Kim Swan, of the United Bermuda Party, has taken to the streets on a single-seater rental bike adorned with a homem...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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