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The costs of what Government described as an “ongoing” legal wrangle with Pro-Active Management, the contractor initially hired to build the new Berkeley Institute, have hit $1.4 million.
Minister of Works and Engineering Dennis Lister outlined the f...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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An investigation into alleged racism at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital cost Government almost $300,000, it was revealed in the House of Assembly on Friday.
Junior Justice Minister Michael Scott told MPs that the review — carried out by the indepen...
DATE: Mar 12, 2007
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New laws are on the way to crack down on people entering into sham marriages to cheat Immigration.
Labour and Immigration Minister Derrick Burgess told the House of Assembly that phoney matrimonial unions were a worldwide problem.
He said: "On a dail...
DATE: Mar 10, 2007
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The smoke that blanketed the Pembroke area is finally out, but troubles at the March Folly dump are not over.
The Transport Control Department (TCD) closed yesterday afternoon because of a "pungent odour" coming from the site.
There is no indication ...
DATE: Mar 10, 2007
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People are being urged to pack the Cathedral for a service to celebrate the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.
On March 25, 1807, the slave trade was abolished in the British colonies including Bermuda — a move which ultimately led to t...
DATE: Mar 10, 2007
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Daylight savings time kicks in three weeks early this year — so set your clocks forward an hour before you go to bed tonight
It is the first year of the new daylight savings time for Bermudians and Americans, which will mean clocks are set forward an...
DATE: Mar 10, 2007
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The Opposition Leader weighed in on the row in the Senate yesterday calling on the Premier to have a "disciplinary talk" with the Government Leader in the Upper House Sen. David Burch.
Wayne Furbert said in a statement: "The Senator's rant in the Sen...
DATE: Mar 10, 2007
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There were several firsts for the 13 young students from Berkeley Institute who travelled to London earlier this year to take part in what is believed to be the biggest youth drama festival in the world.
Most of them had never been to the UK, the maj...
DATE: Mar 10, 2007
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A devastated father last night paid tribute to his popular son who was killed in a motorcycle accident.
Sport-loving Shannon Nusum, 20, of Hamilton Parish, had been on his way to work at the Bermuda Industrial Union's Credit Union when he collided wi...
DATE: Mar 10, 2007
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Housing Minister Sen. David Burch yesterday accused Opposition Senator Gina Spence-Farmer of behaving in a manner towards squatters at the Club Med dormitory that "bordered on criminal".
And he said if he had his choice she would have been arrested f...
DATE: Mar 10, 2007
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