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A lobby group pushing for educational reform has called upon parents to unite against a proposed teachers' strike.
Responding to news that the 900-strong Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) will walk out in three weeks if staff shortages are not addresse...
DATE: Mar 28, 2008
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The mother of fatal accident victim Martha Hoopes has told how "she could not have been a better mother, daughter, sister, wife and aunt".
Devastated Martha Vining told Texas-based news organisation Thefacts.com: "She was the best that anybody could ...
DATE: Mar 28, 2008
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A guest worker who claims to have turned to shoplifting after being fired has been handed a suspended prison sentence.
Edward Watt, 38, a British national currently living in Long Bay, Sandys, admitted theft when he appeared at Magistrates' Court.
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DATE: Mar 27, 2008
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Premier Ewart Brown yesterday championed the electronic media as the best way for Government to get its message out — but Cabinet would not reveal the full methodology behind its thinking in axing its Royal Gazette deals.
A day after Government annou...
DATE: Mar 27, 2008
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More than 100 people have been snapped up from the Caribbean to boost Bermuda Police Service's dwindling resources.
A Police statement revealed that 31 trained officers had been recruited, while a further 70 civilians will be brought to the Island to...
DATE: Mar 27, 2008
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Entrepreneurs are being asked to submit proposals to turn Dockyard into "a vibrant live-work-play community".
The West End Development Corporation (Wedco) is now asking for Request for Proposals (RFPs) to transform the Victualling Yard into a hub of ...
DATE: Mar 27, 2008
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Once described as 'The Gibraltar of the West', the Royal Naval Dockyard served as a strategic outpost for the defence of the British realm through two centuries.
Built after the American War of Independence, it provided the nation with an operational...
DATE: Mar 27, 2008
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Government today gave a boost to the Buy Back Bermuda campaign with a $300,000 donation.
The pledge is a repeat of the funding to the first campaign, which resulted in the creation of the Somerset Long Bay East Nature Reserve last year.
Round Two of ...
DATE: Mar 27, 2008
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A former Police Sergeant of the Bermuda Police Service has returned safe and unharmed, but changed forever after a year serving on the United Nation's Kosovo Mission.
Jeff Baron left this Island in February last year for his chance to make a differen...
DATE: Mar 27, 2008
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The British Minister responsible for the UK's Overseas Territories will arrive on an official visit to the Island today.
Meg Munn MP, a Minister in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, will stay until Saturday.
She was invited here by Deputy ...
DATE: Mar 27, 2008
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