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BASKETBALL pro Sullivan Phillips has urged Bermuda to give the sport the backing it deserves.
He said basketball was one of Bermujda's most successful team sports but got little in the way of money or resources.
Phillips, speaking from the Czech Repu...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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The tiny majorities held by many of Bermuda's MPs should make for a nail-biting election night. Here four political pundits predict how the tight races will go. On the panel are retiring PLP MP Jamahl Simmons, who has been a member of all Bermuda's p...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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THE cover price of the Mid-Ocean News rises by ten cents to 90 cents today.
The increase is due to rising costs, especially in the price of newsprint and electricity, general manager Keith Jensen said.
The price of The Royal Gazette will increase by ...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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American scientist William Sladen, the inspiration behind the Hollywood film Fly Away Home, is to speak at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute next week.
Dr. Sladen and a team from the Swan Research Programme in Airlie, Virginia, developed O...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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Campaign 2007 is fascinating the pundits although some doubt the electorate is gripped. Here our panel of four tipsters, who have been predicting how the seats will fall, give their overview of the action so far.
The party opinion polls are not surpr...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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The Bermuda Regiment is to launch a campaign to recruit more female volunteers to join its ranks.
In newspaper adverts to run ahead of January's annual recruit camp, 18 to 30-year-olds will be urged to consider the challenge of a military career.
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DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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Terrence Smith's conviction for defrauding the Bermuda Housing Corporation of $1.2 million has been quashed by the Court of Appeal, and a re-trial ordered.
The court ruled that the foreman of the jury which convicted him, businessman Gerald Simons, w...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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Nine charities and schools that offer long-term benefits to the Island received significant donations from the Bank of Bermuda Foundation totaling nearly $700,000 during the third quarter of this year.
The individual donations of $20,000 and up were ...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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A Bermudian is challenging leading politicians Hillary Clinton and John McCain in their 2008 bid for the US presidency.
Christopher Popham Smith was born in America but lived here until the age of 14 with his father Colin, an executive with the Bank ...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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A BERMUDIAN married to a member of a prominent British family is the subject of a bizarre case of mistaken identity scandal after London's Daily Telegraph falsely suggested he had fathered his own sister-in-law ¿ at the age of five.
Guy Lancaster's a...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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