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Seamen attacked with PVC pipe in failed robbery
Two Royal Navy sailors were lured to Court Street and attacked after they refused to give their guide cash.
The 19-year-old and 23-year-old crewmen from the HMS were on Front Street at 2 a.m. yesterday...
DATE: Dec 01, 2005
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A resort boss has hit back angrily at claims taxpayers are shelling out thousands of dollars to pay utility bills at a privately-run hotel.
John Jefferis, chairman of Coco Reef Resorts, denied that publicly funded Bermuda College had been forced to f...
DATE: Dec 01, 2005
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Government spent just over $162,000 on the African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference held in September this year.
Some 48 dignitaries from the Caribbean, Africa and North and South America met at the Wyndham Bermuda Hotel and Resort for three days t...
DATE: Dec 01, 2005
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Canadian Michael Ross is disillusioned with the Employment Tribunal process, having battled in vain to get what he believes is his case of unfair dismissal heard.
Mr Ross, 49, moved to Bermuda in 2004 to take up a job as a Online Quality Editor with ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2005
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Generous music lovers have donated violins to a school so its pupils can learn to play.
The donations came as a result of an appeal by Mandy Wells, a music teacher at Francis Patton Primary, who did not have enough instruments for all the students wh...
DATE: Dec 01, 2005
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The Department of Airport Operations was given Planning permission to build a Doppler Weather Radar Project station ? like the one recently installed near Cooper's Island in St. David's ? on top of a listed building, Fort Prospect in Devonshire.
The ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2005
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All youth groups on the Island will be invited to take part in the Voluntary Visitor Exchange Programme with the United States, it was revealed yesterday.Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Community Affairs and Sport, Dr. Derrick Binns indicated ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2005
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With the holiday season approaching residents are being reminded to declare items they plan to take overseas with them if they also intend to bring them back to the Island.
Failing to do so will leave them liable to pay extra tax duty when they come ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2005
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Unions have raised concerns that the tribunal set up to adjudicate the Employment Act 2000 is not working efficiently due to over-worked staff and long delays.
The purpose of the Act is to promote fair treatment of employers and employees, provide mi...
DATE: Dec 01, 2005
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Tough new laws stripping licences from drivers who refuse to pay traffic fines have been rubber-stamped in the Senate.
The Upper House yesterday unanimously approved two bills that Government said would send a tough message to highway offenders ? and...
DATE: Dec 01, 2005
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