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In 2004, the average annual household income was $106,233, a 62 percent increase over the $65,676 reported in 1993.The average Bermuda household spent $1,538 a week on consumer goods and services, a 58 percent nominal increase over 1993 when househol...
DATE: Sep 12, 2005
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Reading challenges in Bermuda?s classrooms are not unique to our Island.
But those challenges and ways to overcome them were addressed by teachers from across the Island last weekend at a Reading Workshop with literacy education specialist Frank Sera...
DATE: Sep 12, 2005
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Bermudians are spending more than double the amount on health care than a decade ago, according to the latest statistics.
The new Household Expenditure Survey (HES) 2004, released on Thursday, said health care cost is a major expenditure for househol...
DATE: Sep 12, 2005
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Celebration time: Tomorrow marks the Ethopian New Year and Bermuda's Rastifarian community will gather to celebrate. Bakure Zion, along with her two sons Elijah Smith, one, and Meshach Crichton seven, are obviously looking f...
DATE: Sep 10, 2005
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Promising a first class extravaganza, Home Affairs Minister Terry Lister yesterday laid out the details of next month?s Bermuda Tattoo.
The Bermuda Tattoo, which was inspired by Bermuda?s much lauded involvement in the 2003 Edinburgh Tattoo, will cap...
DATE: Sep 10, 2005
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As Bermuda Homes for People is no more, Government wants BLDC to take over the project ? and as only 35 people have put down deposits on market-price homes, the taxpayer may ultimately have to foot the bill for 98 lottery homes.
Legally speaking, Gov...
DATE: Sep 10, 2005
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Justice was posthumously served yesterday when a convicted killer was given more jail time for a violent attack on the woman he eventually murdered.
In July of this year George McDonald (Messy) Liburd, 32, was jailed for life for the August 2002 murd...
DATE: Sep 10, 2005
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Smoking "weed" in an increased penalty zone has cost a student $1,800 after he pleaded guilty to being in possession of 0.39 grams of cannabis.
In Magistrates' Court yesterday Daniel Dickinson, 19, of Eastside Drive, Pembroke admitted to Senior Magis...
DATE: Sep 10, 2005
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Question marks have been raised over the future of an affordable housing project in St. David?s following the collapse of Bermuda Homes for People (BHP) this week.
And even if the project, Harbourside Village, does go ahead, the final cost could far ...
DATE: Sep 10, 2005
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The Botanical Gardens is set to undergo a major transformation over the next six months ? even though no decision as to the future location of Bermuda's new hospital has yet been made.
The Botanical Gardens is one of three suggested locations ? along...
DATE: Sep 10, 2005
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