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Politicians are expected to debate amendments to several housing and land development acts today that could see Government grant much longer leases to developers.
It is hoped that, if passed, the amendments will speed up home building and long-awaite...
DATE: May 19, 2006
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The mega-cruise ship that arrived in Dockyard this week had a sea-worthy Bermudian amongst its staff.
Former Devonshire Academy student David Byrd is in charge of the stage show and creative lighting throughout the vessel.
When the Royal Caribbean-op...
DATE: May 19, 2006
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An overgrown salt marsh at Cooper?s Island is to be the first area of land linked to the former NASA tracking station to be brought back into public use.
By this September it should be possible for members of the public to walk around parts of the ma...
DATE: May 19, 2006
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Tourist forced to fight prowler in her room
A South African tourist had to fight off a prowler who chased her from her room.
The 43-year-old was woken at her St. George?s guest property by a noise at the front door but did not find anything suspiciou...
DATE: May 19, 2006
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Assaulting a security guard and entering a Hamilton grocery store armed with a hatchet earned a man a three-year prison sentence yesterday.
Jerry Troy Williams, 42, of Derwent Lane, Devonshire, pleaded guilty yesterday in Magistrates? Court to charge...
DATE: May 19, 2006
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The streets of Hamilton ran fast with water yesterday after Bermuda received its heaviest rainfall of the year ? 1.72 inches of rain fell in the hour between 9 and 10 a.m.
In total the Island received two inches of rain yesterday, according to the Be...
DATE: May 19, 2006
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Impaired driver banned for 12 months
A Smith?s man admitted to driving while impaired yesterday and was fined $800 and banned from driving all vehicles for one year.
Luis Almeida, 40, of Jennings Road appeared in Magistrates? Court with his sister, w...
DATE: May 19, 2006
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Works and Engineering and Housing Minister Senator David Burch told the Senate on Wednesday that ?prevailing circumstances? rather than a case of NIMBY (not in my backyard) led him to quash plans to add 20 homes to the Mary Victoria Road area.
As pre...
DATE: May 19, 2006
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Animal welfare groups have expressed outrage at the decision of the Minister of the Environment to allow an animal show bringing in tigers and bears from overseas to take place in Bermuda.
Permission for the show was granted in principle on Tuesday a...
DATE: May 19, 2006
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GOVERNOR Sir Edwin Leather was reluctant to "open Pandora's box" by reconvening inquests into the five murders Erskine Durrant (Buck) Burrows was suspected of participating in once the former Police Headquarters janitor was jailed for 25 years on sep...
DATE: May 19, 2006
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