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Premier Ewart Brown last night reached out to core Progressive Labour Party supporters with pledges to help the poor, avoid giving thousands of foreigners Bermudian status and refrain from introducing "draconian" measures on crime.
In a televised ele...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Tim Smith
The UBP has accused the PLP of twisting the figures on its election pledge to grant Bermudian status to long-term residents and their children.
The party has admitted that previous UBP administrations failed to address the rights of long term residen...
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Housing activist Sheelagh Cooper had high hopes when the PLP first won power in Bermuda.
But in nine years she has seen the housing problem spiral out of control amid seeming indifference from the party which had promised so much.
Mrs. Cooper says li...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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A motorcyclist snatched a handbag from a woman as she climbed into her car.
Police say the thief drove up beside the victim as she returned to her vehicle outside Bank of Bermuda in Bermudiana Road, at about 10 p.m. on Saturday.
The rider then escape...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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A new GP3 has been driving up and down the roads in the run-up to the election — but this one isn't a plush, dark blue Government car.
Kim Swan, of the United Bermuda Party, has taken to the streets on a single-seater rental bike adorned with a homem...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Scott Neil
If schoolchildren could vote they might not be too keen on one of the United Bermuda Party's ideas for educational reform — longer school days.
But Grant Gibbons, the party's education spokesman, insists that extending the day to 5 p.m. or 5.30 p.m. ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Sam Strangeways
Government yesterday took the unusual step of releasing its update on the economy on a Sunday. The latest snapshot of how Bermuda is performing shows a new record number of cruise ship visitor arrivals and a modest improvement in air arrivals and tou...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Bermuda enjoyed $7 million worth of worldwide coverage during the PGA Grand Slam of Golf, according to Premier Ewart Brown.
The Premier said that is the "media value" UK-based research group Comperio Research placed on the global on-screen graphics, ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Housing activist Sheelagh Cooper had high hopes when the PLP first won power in Bermuda.
But in nine years she has seen the housing problem spiral out of control amid seeming indifference from the party which had promised so much.
Mrs. Cooper says li...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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CATEGORY:
Other
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The UBP has accused the PLP of twisting the figures on its election pledge to grant Bermudian status to long-term residents and their children.
The party has admitted that previous UBP administrations failed to address the rights of long term residen...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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