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Throughout her career she has gone the extra mile to do the very best for her pupils —- now Crystal Lucas has been rewarded as Bermuda's latest Teacher of the Year.
The Purvis Primary School teacher claimed the top award at a ceremony organised by th...
DATE: Dec 19, 2006
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Tim Smith
A former exotic dancer from the US has been found guilty of a $1.4 million fraud against the Bermuda Government.
Teketa Thompkins, 33, received and laundered cash her lover Harrison Isaac Jr. looted from a Government bank account, and spent it like s...
DATE: Dec 19, 2006
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The Board of Governors of Bermuda College must take the ?necessary steps? to recover more than $20,000 of taxpayers? cash which was misspent by members of its executive, according to one of its former chairmen.
Nalton Brangman, who was sacked as chai...
DATE: Dec 19, 2006
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Sam Strangeways
A giant moth has sprung to life in Bermuda a year after it arrived as an unidentified cocoon attached to a batch of imported Christmas trees.
It has taken a full 12 months for the huge moth to end its lengthy spell of metamorphosis into a fully-fledg...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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Scott Neil
Urgent action needs to be taken in the light of a “magnitude” of frauds within a Government department, a watchdog’s report has strongly recommended.
A risk assessment and analysis of the Accountant General’s Department needs to be set up immediately...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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Tim Smith
The Post Office has started operating on its Christmas hours but advised the public that the deadline for sending packages to North America is fast approaching.
The Post Office will be open next Saturday until 1 p.m.
The last date for posting mail fo...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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Measures to modernise Bermuda's Customs laws will be held back due to delays introducing a hi-tech new system to Customs' computers.
Under the Customs Tariff Act, Bermuda will adopt a "harmonised" international tariff system which is used in countrie...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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Tim Smith
The Ministry of Works and Engineering has announced the holiday garbage collection schedule.
After Christmas, trash will be collected in the West End on Wednesday, December 27 and Friday, December 29.
In the East End, it will be collected on Thursday...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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Rules restricting professional incorporations are to be relaxed Finance Minister Paula Cox said Friday.
Currently registration of companies in businesses such as law, accounting, dentistry, medicine, health services or architectural services have bee...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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A Bill that will make it compulsory for accountants serving the Government to be members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bermuda has been tabled in Parliament.
The new amendment would end the exclusion to membership of the ICAB that has ...
DATE: Dec 18, 2006
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
