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Premier gives best wishes to Kim Swan
Premier Ewart Brown has sent a well-wishing letter to new United Bermuda Party leader Kim Swan — and told him he believes he is up to the difficult challenge ahead.
In his correspondence to Mr. Swan — whom despit...
DATE: Jan 23, 2008
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A points system to penalise law-breaking drivers that was introduced in October is in full-effect in Magistrates' Court.
Poor driving and habitual road-rules offenders can now expect on top of fines, to accumulate demerits — and 12 of these in a two-...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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A Tucker's Town millionaire is to be hounded through the courts after he failed to cough up a £48 million ($96 million) divorce settlement.
John Charman was ordered to pay ex-wife Beverly the award by the UK's Court of Appeal in May.
The ruling repre...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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Calls for the Corporation of Hamilton to open its doors to the public are nothing new — but for years they appear to have fallen on deaf ears.
The elected body meets every other Tuesday behind closed doors to discuss the affairs of the city and how i...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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Sam Strangeways
US Consul General Gregory Slayton has told how transparency laws help remind the US Government of its need to be a servant of the people.
Speaking as The Royal Gazette launched its A Right To Know: Giving People Power campaign for freedom of informat...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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The City ground to a halt yesterday as Corporation of Hamilton workers walked out in protest at the firing of two employees.
Services such as garbage collection were suspended as staff refused to return to work until the pair were reinstated. Some cl...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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Henry Ford set a new car speed record of 91.37 mph and Frederick Henry Royce met Charles Stewart Rolls to discuss a Rolls-Royce agreement.
The year was 1904 and it was the year Roseannie Lousie Wilson was born — and yesterday she celebrated her 104th...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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Cabinet could be asked to approve drafting instructions for public access to information legislation "very, very soon", according to the civil servant who helped write Bermuda's discussion paper on the topic.
Kimberley McKeown, a policy analyst at Go...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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Bermuda's second oldest person celebrated her 104th birthday yesterday.
Roseannie Lousie Wilson said a lot has changed since she was born so The Royal Gazette took a look back at her year of birth to see what was happening around the world.
After pur...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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The fate of Bermuda's cement silos in Dockyard is still unknown as the West End Development Corporation failed to answer questions on it yesterday.
However former Bermuda Cement Company owner Jim Butterfield has ruled out suing the West End Developme...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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