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Bermuda's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 0.7 percent — taking inflation into account — during 2008, as the Island's economy began to slow.
Yesterday's Department of Statistics report revealed that GDP, which measures the total value of goods and s...
DATE: Dec 09, 2009
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A Sandys man has been jailed for three years after admitting importing $300,000 of cannabis resin into the Island.
Lorenzo Dill, 22, pleaded guilty to importing the cannabis resin on August 9 by ingesting 76 cylindrical tubes of the drug while in Jam...
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A man lied about witnessing a murder in the hope of getting "a lot of money" from the Police "for a nice trip", a Police officer told Supreme Court.
The false witness tried to rope in a woman to lie to the Police too but found himself arrested when h...
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Scientists from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) have contributed to a series of reports which will help set global policy on climate change.
Among the documents to be discussed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference are the fi...
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A prisoner had 18 months added to his sentence for possession of cannabis while serving at Westgate.
Standing before Magistrates' Court yesterday, Jason Wheatley, 28, pleaded guilty to having a small amount of cannabis, 0.17 grams, in his prison cell...
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The Premier has urged large industrialised nations to take a military-style approach to tackling climate change.
Ewart Brown stressed the vulnerability of small island nations to the effects of global warming when he appeared on Britain's Sky News th...
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The Bermuda Police are now the lead investigators in the case of an Italian Chef who is presumed to have fallen off a cruise ship.
As previously reported in The Royal Gazette, Angelo Faliva, 31, worked for a short time as a chef at the Little Venice ...
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Premier Ewart Brown repeated his demand for control over operational policing just an hour after issuing a joint statement with the Governor which said the two were working closely together.
And yesterday Dr. Brown said he was "pleading" with Governm...
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A teenager accused of double murder told a jury this morning that he didn’t commit the crime — despite having confessed to it twice on tape.
Darronte Dill said he was at home asleep when Frederick Gilbert and Maxwell Brangman were stabbed to death in...
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Taxpayers shelled out almost $2 million for this year’s Bermuda Music Festival — with the Department of Tourism making about half back through revenue.
And the total number of overseas visitors for this year’s festival was 383, compared to 1,500 last...
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