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This Thursday, The Royal Gazette is inviting you to dig something yellow out of your wardrobe and let the sunshine in for Wear Yellow Day.
As part of Sunshine Week, this newspaper's A Right To Know: Giving People Power campaign wants Bermuda to bask ...
DATE: Mar 17, 2008
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Youth apathy and the fear of being drafted into the Regiment were topics of debate as the Election Registry was discussed in the Senate.
Senator David Burch read out head 63, which tabled the Parliamentary Registrar budget for 2008/2009, which will r...
DATE: Mar 17, 2008
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Thousands of driving tests were cancelled in the UK earlier last month after transport department staff went on strike.
The reason for the industrial action? Comparatively low pay among a mostly-female workforce in a Government department.
How did th...
DATE: Mar 17, 2008
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Thunder may have shook much of the Island yesterday but the heavens shone on the annual Palm Sunday Walk.
Organisers rejoiced at the near-perfect weather which saw 1,500-plus people turn out for the five-mile jaunt around Hamilton Parish.
Walkers — i...
DATE: Mar 17, 2008
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USA 3000 Airlines will resume its service from Bermuda to Baltimore with "aggressively priced fares" in May, the Premier said.
The three times weekly service restarts on May 13 and runs until September 2 with fares selling for $99 each way. Flights a...
DATE: Mar 17, 2008
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Members of the public will be authorised to make a citizen's arrest under proposed new legislation.
Police officers will also be given the power to stop and search for knives under the Police and Criminal Evidence Amendment Act 2008.
Government has t...
DATE: Mar 17, 2008
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A fire that had engulfed a tree on Happy Valley Lane yesterday in Pembroke was successfully extinguished by the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service.
Around 4.30 a.m., Police attended the scene and observed the tree ablaze. Subsequently, fire personnel ar...
DATE: Mar 15, 2008
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Being fired upon by Japanese whalers or threatened with hakapiks is an occupational hazard for the crew of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
Just a week ago SSCS President, Paul Watson, was allegedly shot in a confrontation with the whaling shi...
DATE: Mar 15, 2008
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Calls for more transparency in Government have been dismissed as "foolishness" by Labour, Immigration and Housing Minister Senator David Burch.
Government's Leader in the Senate criticised The Royal Gazette's A Right to Know: Giving People Power camp...
DATE: Mar 15, 2008
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A man found in an unresponsive state at the Salvation Army Shelter on Thursday, subsequently died.
At 7.15 a.m., Police received the report, of a man at the Salvation Army Shelter on Marsh Lane in Pembroke.
The man, a 58-year-old from Devonshire, was...
DATE: Mar 15, 2008
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