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New tourism figures show Bermuda is attracting a higher percentage of affluent travellers according to exit surveys.
In surveys conducted between September 1 and October 31, 2007, 49 per cent of respondents had a household income above $150,000 per y...
DATE: Jan 08, 2008
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The pilot of a fast ferry that crashed into a dock pleaded guilty to being more than twice over the legal alcohol limit at the time.
Dwayne Pearman, 37, who was piloting the J.L. Cecil Smith picked up 60 passengers from the Hamilton Ferry dock on Fri...
DATE: Jan 08, 2008
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A total of 120 drinkers took advantage of a free taxi service to get them home safely over Christmas and New Year.
The 'Let Us Drive' initiative is spearheaded by the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention (CADA) in tandem with corporate sponso...
DATE: Jan 07, 2008
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The chairman of a crime prevention group urged mothers to protect their most valued asset — their children — by breaking their silence.
Joanne MacPhee, chairman of CrimeStoppers who is a stepmother herself, was speaking following a letter to the edit...
DATE: Jan 07, 2008
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From the moment they get up in the small hours to begin their 12-hour shift, children in the Bolivian sugar cane industry are living a sorry existence.
Thousands of child labourers as young as nine are made to work on plantations in South America's m...
DATE: Jan 07, 2008
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House prices kept steady as more condominiums went on the market in 2006, according to a Government report on the economy.
Growth in real estate and rent went up 0.8 percent for that year — much less than the five-year average of 4.6 percent.
Accordi...
DATE: Jan 07, 2008
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Fan violence caused a football match in St. David's to be abandoned yesterday, after bottles were thrown and scuffles broke out.
Referee Antoine Augustus decided not to allow play to restart in the First Division match between St. David's and Paget L...
DATE: Jan 07, 2008
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An anti-conscription campaigner launched a broadside at the Deputy Governor yesterday over what he perceives to be comments backing mandatory military service.
The Royal Gazette reported last week how three Bermuda residents wrote to a Foreign Affair...
DATE: Jan 07, 2008
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Premier Ewart Brown has written to US presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him on his historic caucus victory in Iowa.
The Premier told Sen. Obama many people in Bermuda wished him success and said he fondly remembered the brie...
DATE: Jan 07, 2008
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Bermudians Against the Draft will soon be making representations to the British Parliament explaining their oppostio to conscription in the Bermuda Regimebnt. Their arguments include:
¦ The ballot choosing conscripts is gender-biased and a breach of ...
DATE: Jan 07, 2008
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