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Long-term care insurance could be available to the Island’s seniors in a few years.
Age Concern’s new chairman, Paget Wharton, said the insurance would be invaluable due to high costs of care for seniors, and said no such insurance package existed ri...
DATE: Jul 09, 2007
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The Shadow Health Minister last night questioned the future of Bermuda’s health care.
The Bermuda Hospital Board was established under the Bermuda Hospitals Board Act, 1970 and though it has a Government-approved board and a Chief Executive Officer i...
DATE: Jul 09, 2007
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A 20-year-old Pembroke man admitted in Magistrates’ Court to possessing 0.41 grams of free-base cocaine that was found to be 84 percent pure.
Jahmico Trott, of Stovell Bay Road, pleaded guilty to having the drug, in an increased penalty zone on Octob...
DATE: Jul 09, 2007
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Opposition leaders last night speculated that an election could be held on August 16.
And disclosed that Premier Dr. Ewart Brown’s strategy is to dissolve Parliament after the wrap-up of the next Senate meeting on July 11 so a writ for an election co...
DATE: Jul 09, 2007
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A gambling addict who swindled a company where he was a trusted employee out of more than $50,000 has been jailed for three months.
Keith Martin abused his cashier’s position at Robinson’s Marine gas station to pull off a complex scam involving falsi...
DATE: Jul 09, 2007
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An 18-year jail sentence has been meted out to a cruise ship worker who imported more than $300,000 worth of heroin and cannabis.
The full amount of drugs Jamaican national Andrew Laing brought to Bermuda on the Norwegian Spirit will never be known, ...
DATE: Jul 07, 2007
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Residents with milk allergens are being warned not to eat crackers by Back to Nature.
Kraft Foods is recalling its Back to Nature Sesame Ginger Rice Thins, described as ‘lightly crisped baked crackers’.
The warning was issued by the Department of Env...
DATE: Jul 07, 2007
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Commercial court cases are having to be heard in hotels and lawyers' offices because a suitable building cannot be found in Hamilton to permanently locate the courts.
Booth Hall, on Court Street, used to house Supreme Courts Four and Five, as well as...
DATE: Jul 07, 2007
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Sam Strangeways
Green campaigners are echoing calls for Bermuda’s Baselands to be cleaned up to release land for development.
Environmentalists say acres of brownfield sites are going to waste while Kindley Air Force Base and Morgan’s Point are blighted by vast quan...
DATE: Jul 07, 2007
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Tim Smith
A steering committee has now been set up by an independent group aiming to give more power to Bermuda’s people.
The newly-formed Voters’ Rights Association is vowing to push for urgent parliamentary and constitutional reform to give everyone a bigger...
DATE: Jul 07, 2007
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