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Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons yesterday called the National Drug Commission (NDC) Repeal Act the termination of the NDC.
It was Government's way of cutting its losses, he told the House of Assembly.
Pulling quotes from the quango report commissione...
DATE: Jul 19, 2005
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Parliamentarians approved moves by Government to make the National Drug Commission part of the Ministry of Health during yesterday?s session of the House of Assembly.
Health Minister Patrice Minors opened the second reading of the bill entitled the N...
DATE: Jul 19, 2005
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MPs last night passed a bill that will give courts the power to fine drug offenders up to $1 million and impose sentences of between ten years and life.
The Misuse of Drug Amendment Act 2005 was introduced by Minister of Health and Family Services, P...
DATE: Jul 19, 2005
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Belco Holdings Ltd. president and CEO Garry Madeiros yesterday downplayed reports that the company failed to act on a recent recommendation to install fire suppression equipment in the switching room which caught fire on Thursday.
When asked, Mr. Mad...
DATE: Jul 19, 2005
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Archbishop Thomas Gullickson will be visiting Bermuda for the first time on July 22 as the newly appointed Papal Nuncio and Apostolic Delegate to the Dioceses and Governments of the Antilles Episcopal Conference of the Roman Catholic Church.
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DATE: Jul 19, 2005
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Government is bringing in a Canadian power plant expert to investigate Belco?s catastrophic accident.
The Ministry of Health and Family Services is carrying out its investigation separate to the independent inquiry commissioned by Belco?s board of di...
DATE: Jul 19, 2005
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Veteran businessman Stephen Thomson estimates that $40-$50 million of income was lost by all businesses in Hamilton during the four-day blackout caused by a failure at the Belco switching station.
The owner of the two Mailboxes Unlimited businesses a...
DATE: Jul 19, 2005
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MPs yesterday approved moves to boost the amount of compensation to victims of crime.
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Amendment Act 2005 increases the maximum payout from $70,000 to $100,000.
Premier Alex Scott piloted the bill in the House of Ass...
DATE: Jul 19, 2005
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A farmer was crushed to death yesterday by a 7,000-pound tractor.
Thirty-nine-year-old Joseph "Joey" Pacheco of Devonshire was pinned under the tractor after it toppled into a ditch.
Firemen were on the scene within minutes of the alarm being sounded...
DATE: Jul 19, 2005
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Attorney General Larry Mussenden has encouraged Government to build its own emergency electricity facility in order to carry on essential functions during a blackout, MPs were told yesterday.
Speaking in the House of Assembly, Minister of Telecommuni...
DATE: Jul 19, 2005
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