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Although almost half-an-inch of rain fell in a two-hour spell yesterday residents have been warned not to be lulled into a false belief that the Island now has a plentiful supply of fresh water for the summer.
While the rain caused by a cold front cr...
DATE: Apr 19, 2006
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Consideration should be given to the idea of bringing a small cruise ship to Bermuda to provide temporary emergency accommodation as the Island grapples with its housing shortage problems, an MP has suggested.
Such measures have been deployed in othe...
DATE: Apr 19, 2006
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A ground-breaking ceremony was held yesterday at the site where 100 new affordable apartments for seniors will be built.
The badly-needed $12.5 million development, on former woodland at Rockaway, Southampton, is pencilled in for completion next July...
DATE: Apr 19, 2006
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Premier Alex Scott has moved swiftly to play down potential speculation that Bermuda might be heading to the polls as early as this summer.
Speaking during an unscheduled appearance at a Progressive Labour Party meeting in West Pembroke on Monday nig...
DATE: Apr 19, 2006
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National Drug Control Minister Wayne Perinchief last night underscored Government policy to get tough on ?millionaire? drug dealers ? and improve treatment for recovering addicts.
Speaking at a PLP meeting in West Pembroke, Mr. Perinchief said the ai...
DATE: Apr 18, 2006
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Police are asking for the public?s help in locating 55-year-old Gladwin Gilbert of Devonshire.
He was last seen at 11.30 a.m. on Saturday in Devonshire wearing tan shirt and white pants. Mr. Gilbert is described as light-brown skinned, five foot eigh...
DATE: Apr 18, 2006
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Both the Opposition and a former head of Bermuda?s drug squad have reacted with dismay to plans to downgrade cannabis offences.
United Bermuda Party Home Affairs spokesman Maxwell Burgess said it sent the wrong message to black males whom National Dr...
DATE: Apr 18, 2006
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A study of literacy and life skills among the adult populations of six developed nations saw Bermuda place third overall but revealed that a third of young black males are deemed at risk when it comes to everyday literacy skills.
The Department of St...
DATE: Apr 18, 2006
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The aunt of murder victim Nicholas Dill yesterday described how she saw a man climbing out of her nephew?s window carrying a knife and making a ?terrible? sound on the day he was stabbed to death.
?He had no shirt on,? said Edna Mae Jones, who lived ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2006
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Premier Alex Scott last night hailed the performance of Bermuda in a pioneering new literacy survey ? and hinted at its implications for the ongoing independence debate.
Mr. Scott told a PLP meeting in Pembroke how he was asked at the press conferenc...
DATE: Apr 18, 2006
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