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If schoolchildren could vote they might not be too keen on one of the United Bermuda Party's ideas for educational reform — longer school days.
But Grant Gibbons, the party's education spokesman, insists that extending the day to 5 p.m. or 5.30 p.m. ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Government yesterday took the unusual step of releasing its update on the economy on a Sunday. The latest snapshot of how Bermuda is performing shows a new record number of cruise ship visitor arrivals and a modest improvement in air arrivals and tou...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Bermuda enjoyed $7 million worth of worldwide coverage during the PGA Grand Slam of Golf, according to Premier Ewart Brown.
The Premier said that is the "media value" UK-based research group Comperio Research placed on the global on-screen graphics, ...
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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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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As the general election campaign stumbles to a close, the suspicion here is that the main emotion felt by most voters will be relief that is finally over, regardless of who wins. It has been one of the longest campaigns in living memory, and it has a...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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The former Dolphin Quest breakwater on the South Shore is being dismantled — four years after it was damaged by Hurricane Fabian.
Fairmont Bermuda has excavated a temporary road on Open Space at East Whale Bay — on land owned by the Fairmont Southamp...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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When Fern Wade started working with the homeless 30 years ago there were 55 people she knew to be living rough.
"Now there are about 300 known people living on the streets," she says.
The Royal Gazette caught up with her in Court Street on Saturday a...
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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The United Bermuda Party has accused the Progressive Labour Party of having a $160 million "black hole" in its election spending promises.
UBP election candidate Grant Gibbons said Premier Ewart Brown and his party colleagues have refused to tell the...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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