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The Senate glass ceiling shattered yesterday as Carol Anne Bassett became the first female nominated to the presidency of the Upper House.
Sen. Bassett, had served for five years as an independent Senator before accepting the nomination yesterday mor...
DATE: Nov 08, 2008
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Premier Ewart Brown yesterday unveiled a ten-foot-tall statue of Sally Bassett, a slave famously burned at the stake after she was accused of poisoning.
The sculpture, which sits in the Cabinet Grounds, was created by Bermudian artist Carlos Dowling....
DATE: Nov 08, 2008
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Young motorcyclists will have a night-time curfew and be banned from carrying pillion passengers under new road safety legislation.
The Graduated Licensing System will mean new riders aged 16 to 18 must start off with provisional licences while they ...
DATE: Nov 08, 2008
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Teachers' union leader Mike Charles believes if someone had to be sacked for the slow pace of schools reform it should have been $250,000-a-year US education expert Henry Johnson – not Randy Horton.
This week Premier Ewart Brown said he had fired Mr....
DATE: Nov 07, 2008
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Car washers and car owners are being warned about the chlorinated water in City Hall's fountain and the damage it could cause to vehicles.
According to the Superintendent of Parks, Steven DeSilva, the fountain pool at Nellie's Walk in front of City H...
DATE: Nov 07, 2008
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Government is likely to canvass public opinion on the prospect of free bus and ferry travel for all — with a PLP meeting hearing this week that not everyone is in favour.
Premier Ewart Brown, who is also Tourism and Transport Minister, was asked by a...
DATE: Nov 07, 2008
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OF the 770 bird species found in the Bermuda and Caribbean region, 148 are endemic, with 105 confined to single islands.
But only around ten per cent of the region's original habitat remains, and 54 of the Caribbean's bird species are globally threat...
DATE: Nov 07, 2008
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THE Shadow Minister for Education has defended Randy Horton following his controversial sacking, placing the blame for a sluggish education reform process instead on an interim committee and group of paid consultants.
Grant Gibbons spoke out the day ...
DATE: Nov 07, 2008
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Two men accused of murdering homeless St. David's pair Maxwell Brangman and Freddie Gilbert appeared in Magistrates' Court yesterday.
Darronte Dill, 18, of Fentons Drive, Pembroke, is accused of murdering both of the friends, whose bodies were found ...
DATE: Nov 07, 2008
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United Bermuda Party chairman Michael Fahy is to join the Senate – replacing Charlie Swan who resigned last month to contest the Southampton West Central by-election.
UBP leader Kim Swan described the 33-year-old Mr. Fahy as intelligent, hard-working...
DATE: Nov 07, 2008
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