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Premier Alex Scott has appointed Wayne Perinchief to head a new National Drug Control Ministry to combat the scourge of illegal narcotics.
The Premier said drugs are the driving force behind crime in Bermuda and the new Ministry was a bold, innovativ...
DATE: Nov 02, 2005
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Police are investigating the possibility a serial sex attacker is targeting women in their homes.
News of the potential spate of attacks on females emerged at a Press conference yesterday, held to announce the latest batch of Police crime statistics....
DATE: Nov 02, 2005
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Parents of children at a special needs school rocked by allegations that a teacher hit a young girl held a crisis meeting yesterday evening to address the situation.
However, the chairman of the gathering refused to tell what happened or even where i...
DATE: Nov 02, 2005
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Gina Spence Farmer was appointed a United Bermuda Party senator yesterday, despite her employer Bermuda College barring its staff from political office.
Mrs. Spence Farmer, a UBP candidate for the next General Election, has been at the centre of a st...
DATE: Nov 02, 2005
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Tough new machete laws are making criminals think twice about carrying weapons in public, Bermuda's Police chief said yesterday.
Commissioner Jonathan Smith revealed that since July ? when a three-year spell behind bars became minimum for anyone caug...
DATE: Nov 02, 2005
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The mother of a five-year-old Francis Patton pupil is questioning why the school principal ?strapped? her son.
Now the Department of Education is looking into the matter. The mother, who simply wanted to be known as Mrs. Dill, said a few weeks ago he...
DATE: Nov 02, 2005
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Hair follicle drug testing has been challenged by Italian researchers in a 2001 paper which claims there is "compelling evidence" that small amounts of drugs can be found in hair from external contamination.
The University of Catania's Institute of L...
DATE: Nov 01, 2005
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British Airways will be operating daily flights between Bermuda and London next spring and summer ? the largest-ever schedule since the airline launched dedicated service on the route in 1992.
This represents a 50 percent increase in capacity over th...
DATE: Nov 01, 2005
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America?s highest court has rejected an appeal by Celebrity Cruise Lines to overturn a $1 million judgment awarded to a passenger who was raped by a ship?s waiter while the ship was in Bermuda.
The decision by the US Supreme Court to reject the appe...
DATE: Nov 01, 2005
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Police were kept busy last night with Halloween-related calls, although a spokesman said that the problems were no worse than last year.
Officers had attended around 30 incidents as The Royal Gazette went to press, most of which involved eggs being t...
DATE: Nov 01, 2005
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