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An American woman accused of participating in a $1.4 million fraud against the Bermuda Government is due to go on trial in New York City today.
Teketa Thompkins is alleged to have conspired with Bermudian management accountant Harrison Isaac Jnr to s...
DATE: Dec 05, 2006
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Support is flooding in from across the community for our Break The Chains campaign. We kick-started it yesterday — and are now urging our readers to sign an on-line petition demanding action from world leaders to help free at least 12 million modern ...
DATE: Dec 05, 2006
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A bumper year for Sargasso seaweed washing up on Bermuda’s shores has brought a bonanza of discoveries for marine life scientists collecting samples of the remarkable seaweed that floats on the surface of the sea and is home to a “city” of tiny sea c...
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A British Airways cabin steward sacked after a reported drugs binge in Bermuda has told a tabloid newspaper in the UK how he worked while high on cocaine.
Paul Henshaw said he put the lives of thousands of people at risk in mid-air — because he was s...
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A warrant was issued on Friday after a man charged with possession of a bladed article in public failed to attend court.
Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo issued the warrant for Paul Ronald Keith Williams, 38, of East Shore Road, Sandys.
DATE: Dec 05, 2006
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United Bermuda Party Leader Wayne Furbert has predicted Bermuda is in for one of the dirtiest elections ever seen as he blasted Premier Ewart Brown's for his vitriolic attack on Grant Gibbons.
Dr. Brown had used the phrase "racist dog" in a heated ex...
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Premier Ewart Brown has welcomed British Prime Minister Tony Blair?s sorrow over the slave trade.
Commenting of the approach of the bicentenary of the end of slave trade, Mr. Blair said it was a chance to say how ?profoundly shameful? it was and ?con...
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United Bermuda Party Leader Wayne Furbert has predicted Bermuda is in for one of the dirtiest elections ever seen as he blasted Premier Ewart Brown's for his vitriolic attack on Grant Gibbons.
Dr. Brown had used the phrase "racist dog" in a heated ex...
DATE: Dec 05, 2006
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With its elegant design, luxury cabins and rich blue hull, it was never going to come cheap.
So it has proved, as Bermuda-based Dutch oil tycoon John Deuss put his glamorous three-masted Fleurtje up for sale — at a cool $14.75 million.
The vessel, re...
DATE: Dec 05, 2006
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Increased pension pay-outs for retired public employees were approved in the House of Assembly on Friday — with many getting a 6.5 percent rise.
But those still working will find their contributions going up again next year as Government seeks to add...
DATE: Dec 05, 2006
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