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An offer by the Ministry of Works and Engineering to help straighten out some of the chaos caused by its sudden relocating of the Auditor General's office at the weekend has been turned down until Auditor General Larry Dennis returns to the Island ne...
DATE: May 31, 2006
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The supply of housing in Bermuda is being squeezed at both ends of the property scale by guest workers ? making the problem worse for Bermudians seeking their own home.
Housing Minister David Burch said it had long been the case that well-paid guest ...
DATE: May 31, 2006
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A UBP candidate planning to stand in a PLP stronghold believes people there have been let down by both Bermuda?s political parties and have lost faith in politicians.
Tillman Darrell, 39, who grew up in the disadvantaged Pembroke South East district ...
DATE: May 31, 2006
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Demonstrators plan to march on the House of Assembly on Friday to protest at the failure of MPs to debate a bill which would have outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Organisers of the rally, which will take place at 12.15 p.m. in the...
DATE: May 31, 2006
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Sam Strangeways
Senior School students will be competing for laptops at Pembroke Rotary Club?s first ?Senior School Computer & Technology Quiz? in the Ruth Seaton James Auditorium tonight.
The quiz is the brainchild of Pembroke Rotary?s Alan Pailing.
Professionally ...
DATE: May 30, 2006
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The fate of a young man accused of attacking a family friend is set to be decided by a jury today.
David Trott is said by the Crown to have beaten Ashley Smith about the head with a crash helmet after he failed to pay for $50 of crack cocaine. The de...
DATE: May 30, 2006
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Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert yesterday called for pensions to be increased above the inflation rate. Some pensioners were being forced to decide between prescription drugs and food, he claimed.
His comments came at the start of Senior Citizens? We...
DATE: May 30, 2006
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Bermuda will teach the rest of the Caribbean to be more sustainable at an upcoming multinational Environment Forum, Premier Alex Scott said on Monday.
At a press conference in Cabinet, Mr. Scott said he would be the keynote speaker at a Caribbean Env...
DATE: May 30, 2006
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At the crack of dawn there was nothing there but a concrete basement foundation. By the time the sun went down that same day a three-floor home had been created.
All that was missing was the roof space ? that is likely to be completed within the comi...
DATE: May 30, 2006
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Five storm-tossed sailors were plucked to safety after being stranded in the ocean for several hours.
The sailors ? all Canadian ? were aboard sailing vessel heading to New Port, Rhode Island after leaving Bermuda. The men encountered a storm 250 mil...
DATE: May 30, 2006
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