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Bermuda's World Cup cricket team takes part in opening ceremonies at Trelawny Stadium in Jamaica. The team plays its first official World Cup match against Sri Lanka on Thursday.
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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A law designed to protect children from pornography and sexual predators on the Internet sailed through the Senate on Friday.
The Criminal Code Amendment emanated from a Government Green Paper in 2003 and a subsequent task force called the Child Onli...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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Government has learned from the experience of the week-long Marsh Folly dump fire, Works and Engineering Minister Dennis Lister assured MPs on Friday.
He told the House of Assembly: “Many have suggested that we were negligent, that we should have kno...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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The costs of what Government described as an “ongoing” legal wrangle with Pro-Active Management, the contractor initially hired to build the new Berkeley Institute, have hit $1.4 million.
Minister of Works and Engineering Dennis Lister outlined the f...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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An investigation into alleged racism at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital cost Government almost $300,000, it was revealed in the House of Assembly on Friday.
Junior Justice Minister Michael Scott told MPs that the review — carried out by the indepen...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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New laws are on the way to crack down on people entering into sham marriages to cheat Immigration.
Labour and Immigration Minister Derrick Burgess told the House of Assembly that phoney matrimonial unions were a worldwide problem.
He said: "On a dail...
DATE: Mar 10, 2007
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The smoke that blanketed the Pembroke area is finally out, but troubles at the March Folly dump are not over.
The Transport Control Department (TCD) closed yesterday afternoon because of a "pungent odour" coming from the site.
There is no indication ...
DATE: Mar 10, 2007
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People are being urged to pack the Cathedral for a service to celebrate the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.
On March 25, 1807, the slave trade was abolished in the British colonies including Bermuda — a move which ultimately led to t...
DATE: Mar 10, 2007
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Daylight savings time kicks in three weeks early this year — so set your clocks forward an hour before you go to bed tonight
It is the first year of the new daylight savings time for Bermudians and Americans, which will mean clocks are set forward an...
DATE: Mar 10, 2007
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The Opposition Leader weighed in on the row in the Senate yesterday calling on the Premier to have a "disciplinary talk" with the Government Leader in the Upper House Sen. David Burch.
Wayne Furbert said in a statement: "The Senator's rant in the Sen...
DATE: Mar 10, 2007
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