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Amnesty International Bermuda will hold its annual general meeting on Thursday, April 17 at 7 p.m. at Bermuda Chamber of Commerce on Point Pleasant Road, Hamilton.
The guest speaker will be David Northcote from Two Words And A Comma, a group formed l...
DATE: Apr 09, 2008
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It's 3 a.m. Bermuda time onboard the Oleander and the cargo vessel is some 400 nautical miles out in the Atlantic, headed to Bermuda, having departed Port Elizabeth, New Jersey the day before.
Nothing odd about that, you might think, given the fact t...
DATE: Apr 09, 2008
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Amateur fishermen have criticised plans to limit catches to two fish per boat per day as "unnecessary" and say it will frustrate popular tournaments.
The Department of Environmental Protection is proposing the restrictions on wahoo, yellowfish tuna, ...
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Hamilton Mayor Sutherland Madeiros "overstepped his authority" by imposing a ban on horse-drawn carriages during Harbour Nights, Senator Wayne Caines said yesterday.
The Junior Tourism and Transport Minister said he was writing to the Mayor to "stron...
DATE: Apr 09, 2008
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More than 300 people have taken part in Government's Hustle Truck initiative — with 60 going on to get full-time jobs.
The success was outlined as Premier Ewart Brown and Home Affairs Minister Sen. David Burch celebrated the first year of the scheme....
DATE: Apr 09, 2008
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A memorial service for the late Sir Desmond Langley, former Bermuda Governor, will take place on Wednesday, April 30, at St. John's Church in Pembroke, Government House has announced.
Sir Desmond, who was Governor of Bermuda from 1988 to 1992, was in...
DATE: Apr 09, 2008
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A Mauritius national appeared in Magistrates' Court yesterday on charges of wounding two seamen on board a Bermuda-registered ship in the Pacific Ocean.
Reeteshwar Shibchurn, 21, pleaded guilty to unlawfully wounding Badrinath Ramessur and Jean Matth...
DATE: Apr 09, 2008
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A tsunami warning system could be established for Bermuda and the North Atlantic as early as next year.
Member states of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission are to set up a tsunami warning centre to better predict potential threats fo...
DATE: Apr 09, 2008
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By ten years old, the average Bermudian child has had his or her first drink of alcohol.
By the time they are 16, six out of every ten teenagers have tried alcohol and teenagers who start drinking before they are 15, are five times more likely to dev...
DATE: Apr 09, 2008
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Lifestyle choices such as smoking, doing drugs and overeating are increasing health insurance premiums well beyond the level of inflation.
How much is spent in Bermuda on the diseases that result — diabetes and cancer — however, will not be known unt...
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