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Bermuda Forwarders truck from entering the Hamilton docks.
One BIU member threw himself in front of the big container truck's wheels at one point, while others pulled the door open and threatened to haul the driver out. The driver eventually pulled a...
DATE: Jul 01, 1992
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Bermuda Forwarders' president Mr. Toby Kempe yesterday spoke publicly about the dispute for the first time in several months.
And he showed he was in no mood to strike any deals with the Bermuda Industrial Union.
"In our view the only place that this...
DATE: Jul 01, 1992
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fined $350 in Magistrates' Court yesterday. Joseph A. DaCosta, 39, of White Sands pleaded guilty to the charge.
Prosecuting, Insp. Peter Duffy, told the court that on June 21 at 4.45 p.m.
DaCosta failed to stop for a red light at the junction of King...
DATE: Jul 01, 1992
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taxi rides and foul weather wreaked havoc on holiday plans.
"I was prepared to come here and spend money in the shops but I haven't been able to because I've had to spend so much on taxi fares,'' said Mrs.
Constance Cameron of Chicago.
"I don't think...
DATE: Jul 01, 1992
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to deliver a knock-out blow.
It triggered a patchy response, with scattered picketing and walkouts.
The Post Office was rocked by an 80 percent walkout of unionised staff, scuppering deliveries.
And work on the Dockyard prison virtually ground to a h...
DATE: Jul 01, 1992
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survey reveals. But it says the Island is not alone in feeling the effects of the economic downturn.
The report, in the first issue of a new magazine, Caribbean Tourism Today, shows Bermuda's major competitors are also being hit by bad times.
The sur...
DATE: Jul 01, 1992
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Top Square, St. George's, to be used for housing development.
Government Sen. the Hon. Maxwell Burgess , who presented the proposal, explained that .479 acres of the land near the St. George's Health Clinic, will go to the Bermuda Housing Corporation...
DATE: Jul 01, 1992
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Plucky postmistress Mrs. Effie Ratteray was back behind her counter yesterday -- 24 hours after being terrorised by a masked knife-wielding raider.
Mrs. Ratteray told The Royal Gazette : "If I didn't return today I would never return.'' And she adde...
DATE: Jul 01, 1992
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thing is certain. We will all lose.
The union's decision last night to stage a strike involving all its members is the latest, and perhaps inevitable, escalation of what began as a dispute over one fired shop steward.
That it has reached this point, ...
DATE: Jul 01, 1992
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for the main principals in the escalating industrial dispute to meet to resolve the issue which is threatening the entire Island.
But that was the extent of their agreement in the assessment of the situation.
Leading the upper house's motion to adjou...
DATE: Jul 01, 1992
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