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A community activist who hopes to replace the United Bermuda Party as Bermuda?s second political party has indicated it will not happen unless and until the Opposition dissolves.
Khalid Wasi said last night that Bermudians are too pragmatic and pract...
DATE: Apr 06, 2006
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She may not have broken any world records but there is no denying that amateur gardener Norma Latham has grown two larger-than-life pumpkins.
The mother-of-one and grandmother, of Spice Hill Road, Warwick, told she was delighted with her 70 pound and...
DATE: Apr 06, 2006
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The Ministry of Community Affairs and Sport presented the first set of Grass Roots Grants yesterday.
The Ministry set aside $150,000 in this year's Budget to provide assistance to community groups and small organisations.
Yesterday 11 groups received...
DATE: Apr 06, 2006
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Current Mayor of Hamilton Lawson Mapp will stand for office once again next month, but is being challenged by Alderman Jay Bluck.
Mr. Mapp said yesterday that he wishes to remain in the post he has held since 2000 to continue his involvement in devel...
DATE: Apr 05, 2006
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A grace period for taxi drivers who have not yet installed new high-tech equipment into their taxis will soon be over, Government warned yesterday.
Randy Brangman, the Director of the Transport Control Department, would not give an exact date by whic...
DATE: Apr 05, 2006
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The UK Government?s top lawyer has warned of the importance of all overseas territories pulling together in the fight against international terrorism.
Speaking at a conference of Attorneys General for British Overseas Territories which opened in Berm...
DATE: Apr 05, 2006
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This year?s National Trust Palm Sunday Walk, which usually attracts some 2,000-plus people, will tour the rural parts of central Bermuda.
The annual walk aims to take members of the public through parts of the Island people don?t normally visit.
This...
DATE: Apr 05, 2006
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A vicar who worked in Bermuda for more than ten years has died after an 18-month battle with leukaemia.
The Rev. Terry Abernethy, 63, curate at St. John?s Church, Pembroke, from 1972 to 1979 and vicar of St. Mark?s Church, Smith?s, from 1979 to 1984,...
DATE: Apr 05, 2006
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Jury selection for the much-delayed murder trial of Andre Kirk Everett Hypolite is expected to start today.
Hypolite, 33, is accused of murdering Nicholas Dill on Boxing Day, 2004.
His murder trial had been due to start in November and then December,...
DATE: Apr 05, 2006
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Bermuda's approach to fighting addiction is winning international acclaim according to visiting US drug counsellors.
Lissa Jones and Jonathan Lofgren were in Bermuda last week to run sessions for around 30 drug and mental health workers.
Ms Jones, of...
DATE: Apr 05, 2006
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