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Whatever their feelings about Mr. Furbert's departure, UBP MPs can't say they weren't warned.
The Hamilton Parish MP was blunt after last year's election defeat when he said the party would never win again unless it changed.
And in August he said he ...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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Islanders using environmentally-sound light bulbs can rest assured that they can now be disposed of safely.
Works and Engineering Minister Derrick Burgess told a press conference yesterday that a "compact fluorescent light bulb eater" had been bought...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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Government is cutting holiday licensing fees for businesses and this afternoon donated $20,000 to the Chamber of Commerce to jump-start its Buy Bermuda Campaign.
Finance Minister Paula Cox made the announcement in response to concerns about the econo...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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A taxi driver has claimed that he was chopped in the neck by a man disgruntled over a business deal.
Neville Andre Greene told a Supreme Court jury that prior to the incident on April 29, Stephen Gladstone Thompson had asked him about driving a taxi ...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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First elected in 1993 in the dual-member seat of Hamilton West, Wayne Furbert became Community and Cultural Affairs Minister under John Swan and also served as Transport Minister and Minister of Health, Social Services and Housing.
He lost his seat i...
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The majority of lawyers are in favour of plans to allow bankrupt barristers to practise in Bermuda, according to Bermuda Bar Association president Rod Attride-Stirling.
He said 90 members of the association responded to an e-mail survey on the topic ...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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Former United Bermuda Party leader Wayne Furbert has quit the party in disgust over its failure to reform into an election-winning entity.
The MP, who held marginal Hamilton West at the last election, will sit as an independent but will not contest t...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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Three wreaths were cast into the sea during a touching tribute to deceased mariners.
The ceremony – an annual event since the sinking of the Lloyd Bermuda in 1988 – took place last Thursday morning at Five Fathom Hole, St. George's.
The first wreath ...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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Government had to suspend plans to push through a land reclamation bid for a mega cruise ship dock after a storm of protest in the House of Assembly on Friday.
The plan was to grant the West End Development Corporation a freehold to a seabed of 8.2 a...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
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Gita Blakeney-Saltus is the new regional vice-president of the non-profit addiction treatment centre, Caron Bermuda. She succeeds Gordon Johnson, who oversaw the establishment of Caron Bermuda and now manages the consulting firm Johnson & Associates....
DATE: Dec 08, 2008
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