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Giving Bermuda Regiment soldiers the opportunity to have their course fees paid if they enrol at Bermuda College should be expanded to allow soldiers to take up subsidised overseas education once they have completed their term of duty with the Regime...
DATE: Apr 22, 2006
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The murder trial of Andre Hypolite has opened the lid off the Island?s underworld of drugs and prostitution. Prosecution witness Stacey Pike admitted performing oral sex on Hypolite on Boxing Day, 2004 in exchange for $50 of crack cocaine, which came...
DATE: Apr 22, 2006
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A yacht?s log book anointed and autographed by late Beatle John Lennon after he sailed to Bermuda in 1980 for his last summer holiday has narrowly failed to reach its reserve price at a rock and pop memorabilia auction in London.
The journal from the...
DATE: Apr 21, 2006
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Andre Kirk Hypolite should be acquitted of his murder because Nicholas Dill had enough cocaine in his body to ?kill an elephant?, a defence lawyer told a Supreme Court jury yesterday.
Mark Pettingill told jurors that although 0.81 micrograms of cocai...
DATE: Apr 21, 2006
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The man known to many as ?Mr. British Airways? has today announced he will leave the company this summer after a 41 year career.
Philip Troake has worked his way to the top of the BA operation on the Island after taking a part-time summer job as a st...
DATE: Apr 21, 2006
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A toxic chemical spill triggered a rush-hour alert at Hamilton docks as firefighters wearing breathing masks raced to contain a sulphuric acid scare on the container ship.
Emergency crews hosed down the top deck of the boat, where the bulk of a 250 l...
DATE: Apr 21, 2006
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Overseas investors are keeping a watching brief over the planned $200 million redevelopment of the Wyndham Hotel and Resort to see if Bermuda now truly has become a place where major hotel investment can succeed after decades of relative inactivity.
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DATE: Apr 21, 2006
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Re-connecting the descendants of Africa who were dispersed across the world through the slave trade and other population movements was the theme presented by Deputy Premier Dr. Brown to a conference of former African leaders in South Africa yesterday...
DATE: Apr 21, 2006
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A plan to build a new community sports centre will help combat drug problems in the west end, Education Minister Terry Lister said this week.
The Sandys Secondary School Foundation is raising funds to build a complex which will offer activities and c...
DATE: Apr 21, 2006
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The 68th Annual Exhibition kicked off yesterday with thousands of locals and visitors flocking to the Botanical Gardens to soak up sun, fun and environmental information.
This year?s theme, ?Planting Seeds for Tomorrow?, was evident in many of the ex...
DATE: Apr 21, 2006
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