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Sea urchins that appear to have worked out the secret of eternal life and the discovery of 1.2 million previously unknown genes in a cubic metre of sea water are just two breakthroughs in which Bermuda has recently played a major role.
These gems of ...
DATE: Nov 09, 2005
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A reformed drug addict who went on a crime spree only a few weeks before he was due to graduate from a two-year drugs? rehabilitation programme has apologised to a judge and the community at large.
Kevin Davis is starting a two-year prison term as a ...
DATE: Nov 09, 2005
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Social workers at Bermuda?s Department of Child and Family Services fear that the Island?s housing crisis is negatively affecting a number of children and the Department doesn?t have necessary emergency housing to shelter homeless families.
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DATE: Nov 09, 2005
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United Bermuda Party leader Grant Gibbons has hit back at comments made in the Press recently by Derrick Burgess of the Bermuda Industrial Union.
Mr. Burgess had said Dr. Gibbons failed to stand up for MP John Barritt when he was forced out of law fi...
DATE: Nov 09, 2005
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Timeshare legislation ? or the lack of it in this year?s Throne Speech ? has raised questions in the tourism and hotel community.
But the Director of Tourism, Cherie-Lynn Whitter, said this week that the Ministry was in the final stages of reviewing ...
DATE: Nov 08, 2005
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Education and Development Minister Terry Lister is shaking things up ? starting with a revision of the code of conduct, improving the assessment programme and investing heavily in professional development of teachers.
It is aimed, he said, at improvi...
DATE: Nov 08, 2005
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An army of nearly 200 volunteers collected more than 8,100 pieces of trash along a four-mile stretch of the Island?s shoreline.
The International Coastal Clean-up campaign took place at Mangrove Bay and other locations in September and October.
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DATE: Nov 08, 2005
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The owner of Champions Private Sports Club on Reid Street expressed anger that his establishment was yet again named by Police as the site of a vicious machete attack which actually occurred across the street.
Yesterday, Police appealed to witnesses ...
DATE: Nov 08, 2005
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A Bermudian aid worker brutally gunned down in front of his pregnant wife while on missionary work in Africa told his family weeks before he died there was a $25,000 bounty on his head.
Colin Lee and Paraguayan wife Hedwig Lee were ambushed and robbe...
DATE: Nov 08, 2005
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A Court of Appeal case was held up for the third time yesterday when a man convicted of the manslaughter of his baby was granted more time to try to enlist the help of a top English QC.
Amenemhat Tamerry was convicted in June 2004, together with his ...
DATE: Nov 08, 2005
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