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Government Ministers are believed to be split on the wisdom of rebuilding King Edward VII Memorial Hospital slap bang in the middle of the Botanical Gardens at an expected cost of $500 million during the next seven years.
There are signs Cabinet did ...
DATE: Aug 31, 2006
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A landscaper who was killed after falling and being hit by a large branch from a tree he was helping to lop in Fairylands on Monday has been named as Joao Antonio Vital of the Azores.
The 34-year-old died of his injuries while pruning a row of casuar...
DATE: Aug 31, 2006
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Bermudians for Referendum have vowed not to give up after their latest bid to get Government to commit to a separate poll on Independence was again brushed aside by the Premier.
Alex Scott issued a two paragraph letter which said the Government would...
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A man who admitted possessing freebase cocaine with intent to supply has been jailed for a year.
Willard Dwight Burks pleaded guilty to the charge at Magistrates? Court on Monday along with another of possessing cannabis.
Crown counsel Carrington Mah...
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Mayor of Hamilton Jay Bluck was being treated in the intensive care unit at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for a suspected heart condition yesterday.
Mr. Bluck, 65, was taken ill around 3 a.m. at his East Shore Road, Somerset, home. A family frien...
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A bus driver has been praised for his quick action to help a poorly young woman who was taken ill on a bus leaving Hamilton on Tuesday evening.
Passenger delMonte Davis described what happened only a few minutes into the journey on the 8C service fro...
DATE: Aug 31, 2006
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A special development order relating to the Wyndham Hotel and Resort that has been advertised as a Government Notice is not connected to the expected $200 million re-development of the South Shore establishment.
The publication of the SDO keeps a pre...
DATE: Aug 31, 2006
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An overseas scholarship has been awarded and a college student hospitality award presented by the Bermuda Hotel Association.
And Bermudian professional footballer Shaun Goater has been honoured for his contributions to promoting the Island through sp...
DATE: Aug 31, 2006
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A dance school boss who wants more officers patrolling Bermuda?s streets has delivered a near 400-name petition to Police Commissioner George Jackson.
Jeanne Legere had already started collecting signatures when one of her former students was alleged...
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He?s been shot in the stomach, slashed in the back, got hooked on heroin in his mid-teens and spent 12 years behind bars in a US jail for a $250,000 kidnap scam.
If anyone can tell Bermuda?s youths why they should turn their backs on gang culture, it...
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