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Taxi drivers in Bermuda need their own commission like their counterparts in New York, a meeting heard last night.
Cabbie William Glenn Tucker said at the packed gathering at Cathedral Hall in Hamilton that taxi drivers were “tired of being treated l...
DATE: May 22, 2007
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A work to rule by waste collection staff is disrupting garbage collection across the Island.
However a Government spokesman said they hoped that a backlog of garbage which has built up by the roadside will all be collected today and tomorrow.
The spo...
DATE: May 22, 2007
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A Police officer has been acquitted of stalking his ex-girlfriend.
Robert Butterfield, 36, was yesterday found not guilty of following the woman between July 1-25 last year, loitering and acting in an abusive manner.
Magistrate Juan Wolffe said evide...
DATE: May 22, 2007
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Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons is calling on Government to fulfil its promise to release in full a damning report on the Island’s public schools.
Education Minister Randy Horton has promised that the document — penned by UK professor David H...
DATE: May 22, 2007
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The independent review into Bermuda’s failing public education system cost almost a quarter of a million dollars, it has emerged.
Education Minister Randy Horton, in answer to parliamentary questions from former Opposition leader Grant Gibbons, revea...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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Premier Ewart Brown’s “lavish” lifestyle last night came under fire after he and his entourage spent more than $280,000 of taxpayers’ money on overseas trips in a ten-month period.
Dr. Brown racked up a $23,000 hotel bill during a one-week stay in Lo...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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An animal welfare group is asking the public to petition the Corporation of Hamilton to ban horses and carriages from the city completely.
After two horses bolted during a busy Harbour Nights on April 25, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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Woman fined for having cannabisPolice find 2.6 grams of cannabis on a Paget woman while she was in custody on another matter.
Magdalena Szymanska was fined $400 by acting Magistrate Ed Bailey after the 27-year-old Southcote Close woman admitted havin...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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The Department of Financial Assistance has launched an initiative to encourage the unemployed back into work. According to Minister of Social Rehabilitation Dale Butler, 49 of the 700 people being helped by the Department are classed as able-bodied a...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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Premier Ewart Brown paid tribute and extended his condolences to the King Family after the passing of Yolanda King, the first child of civil rights legends Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
She died on Tuesday at a California hospita...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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