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A Bill to expand respite care, pensions and other benefits to war veterans received its second reading in the Senate yesterday.
Senators have now submitted The Pensions and Gratuities (War Service) Amendment Act 2009 back to the House of Assembly wit...
DATE: Mar 12, 2009
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Government is launching a website to promote the talents of Bermudian musicians.
The initiative will strike a chord with local artists, some of whom feel they are "undervalued".
Junior Minister of Culture and Social Rehabilitation, Senator Thaao Dill...
DATE: Mar 12, 2009
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Traffic ground to a halt on Par-la-Ville Road yesterday evening when Police stopped a car and got into a struggle with the occupants eventually quelling them with incapacitant spray.
A Police spokesman said: "Around 6:40pm, Police on mobile patrol in...
DATE: Mar 12, 2009
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Popular song writer Matthew Clarke was found dead in his bed with 26 stab wounds and blunt trauma injuries to his head and brain, a prosecutor told a jury this morning.
Rory Field, Director of Public Prosecutions, was addressing the opening of the Su...
DATE: Mar 12, 2009
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Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards told MPs last night that the qualified audit on Government's Consolidated Fund and the Premier's response reflected badly on Government as an entity and on the Island as a whole.
Mr. Richards said during the motio...
DATE: Mar 12, 2009
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Sam Strangeways
A taxi driver who let rip with a negative rant about tourism to a visiting couple has received a tongue-lashing himself — from no less than the Premier.
For little did the cabbie know that the pair in the back of his vehicle were hotel developer Carl...
DATE: Mar 11, 2009
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Sam Strangeways
It's a monster from the deep, rarely seen and thought to be little more than a sailors' myth until one was washed up at Hungry Bay, in Paget, 150 years ago.
The weird appearance of the "sea serpent-like" oarfish is the thing of nightmares for many pe...
DATE: Mar 11, 2009
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A 29-year-old firefighter and sportsman died after crashing his motorcycle into the sidewalk in the early hours of yesterday morning.
Kevin Mooney of Southampton — who fought back from serious head injuries after a similar accident six years ago — lo...
DATE: Mar 11, 2009
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New Bermuda bills were released into circulation Monday the first redesign of the Island's banknotes since 1970.
Designs pictured on the currency are of typical Bermuda scenes, flora and fauna, while heightened security aspects include a watermark of...
DATE: Mar 11, 2009
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A man who led Police on a vehicle chase at over 90 kph while almost double the alcohol limit has been banned from the roads.
Police spotted Conrad Simmons around 8.55 p.m. on June 6 last year when they were conducting laser speed checks on North Shor...
DATE: Mar 11, 2009
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