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Education Officers got a one-day taste of the experience offered to students during a five-day 'Bermuda Spirit' Learning Expedition. Here, Staff Development Education Officer Carol N. Bassett watches while Social Studies Education Officer Leona Scot...
DATE: Mar 27, 2007
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The people behind Rosie O’Donnell’s gay and lesbian family cruise and at least one leader from the Bermuda African Methodist Episcopal Church are set to have a conversation about the same sex couple travel event scheduled to visit the island in July....
DATE: Mar 27, 2007
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Beleaguered United Bermuda Party Leader Wayne Furbert is still in his post after his colleagues opted not to press ahead with a scheduled confidence vote last night.
While it had been expected Mr. Furbert would resign or be voted out a mystery deal w...
DATE: Mar 27, 2007
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Police kept busy
On the roads this weekend, four people were arrested on suspicion of impaired driving, there were 20 reported damage only road traffic collisions and 7 reported road traffic collisions, which resulted in injury.
Five burglaries were,...
DATE: Mar 27, 2007
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A man caught with a twist of cannabis was fined $600.
The court had heard how Percy Louis Junior Smith, 40, was stopped by Police as he rode his motorcycle on Curving Avenue, Pembroke, at 11.20 p.m. on September 30 last year.
According to Crown couns...
DATE: Mar 27, 2007
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A defendant faced a sexual assault charge for several months before being acquitted when the complainant refused to turn up at court for the trial.
The 40-year-old man, from Pembroke, had been accused of using or threatening to use a knife during the...
DATE: Mar 27, 2007
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Most people have known grief, but few have known it like the Johnston family. In a 15-hour stretch the family’s matriarch suddenly lost her husband and her son in two unexpected and completely unrelated deaths.
The grieving widow’s daughter Denise Mo...
DATE: Mar 27, 2007
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A group of German students sailed into the Island last week and took a ride on the Spirit of Bermuda.
Students from the High Seas High School, in Spiekeroog, went aboard the tall ship along with 15 people from the Ministries of Education and Youth an...
DATE: Mar 27, 2007
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Hundreds of people packed into the Cathedral for a service to mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade yesterday.
They heard a series of moving speeches and presentations, said prayers and sang a number of hymns, including Amazing Gra...
DATE: Mar 26, 2007
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Entertainment from Gombeys, a string of speeches about Bermuda’s past and a tour of a slavery exhibition formed a vibrant celebration at Commissioner’s House yesterday.
About 150 people turned out for the three-hour commemoration the bicentenary of t...
DATE: Mar 26, 2007
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