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Road tolling, reducing water consumption and the future of the cruise ship industry in Bermuda are among the topics which will come under the spotlight at a public meeting this evening. The final sustainable development forum ? exploring the fifth th...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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A Canadian guest worker remains in a critical condition in hospital after being seriously injured in a motorbike accident on North Shore Road on Sunday evening.
The 28-year-old was thrown from his rental bike after a head-on collision with a car in t...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert has hit out at Government plans to build a new hospital in the Botanical Gardens, saying it should be rebuilt at its current location.
The proposal announced by Health Minister Patrice Minors on August 30 will see the ...
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For most of the past decade the Elkinson family has been getting around in cars that never need to be filled up at a gas station ? and the reason is not because the Paget family has been amazingly frugal in their gas consumption.
The family is now on...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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A full programme of events is being planned for the arrival of the Island?s first sail training ship at the end of this month.
A ?gala afternoon? of activities have been planned to formerly welcome the $5.7 millionto Bermuda on September 30.
The acti...
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King Edward VII Memorial Hospital has installed a new X-ray system, thanks to a $600,000 donation from Bacardi International Limited.
The company paid for a digital imaging system called a General Electric Definium 8000, which reduces patient exposur...
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The level of waste produced by Bermudians is rising by four percent each year, meaning that the amount generated will have doubled in 24 years, a new report warns.
The Government?s draft sustainable development plan ? which sets out a blueprint for t...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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Bermudians use more than three times as much water today as they did 40 years ago and consume half a billion gallons more than is collected in their rain tanks annually, the Government?s draft sustainable development plan reveals.
?Charting Our Cours...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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An early morning power outage at the Fairmont Southampton failed to derail a major insurance conference yesterday.
Power was cut to most of the hotel at about 4.15 a.m., when a transformer malfunctioned. One guest said he had heard a series of explos...
DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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DATE: Sep 19, 2006
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