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Asbestos which was discovered in the demolished A.S. Cooper?s building has now been removed, put in containers and taken to the Government quarry in Bailey?s Bay, the Island?s senior environmental health officer said yesterday.
The firm that dealt wi...
DATE: Mar 09, 2005
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Bermuda?s record for rehabilitating criminal offenders is a ?colossal joke?, Bermuda Prison Fellowship chairman Jack Harris declared yesterday.
Addressing the weekly meeting of Hamilton Rotarians at the Mariners Club yesterday, Mr. Harris, who has de...
DATE: Mar 09, 2005
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Legislation abolishing death tax on the primary family homestead was one of three short bills tabled in the House of Assembly at the end of the Monday night session.
The Stamp Duties Amendment Act 2005 will be debated this week along with two sets of...
DATE: Mar 09, 2005
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The heated construction market and the lack of an available contractor are behind the continuing delays to the renovation of the Premier's new official residence of Clifton in Devonshire.
Premier Alex Scott confirmed early last year the sprawling pro...
DATE: Mar 09, 2005
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The controversial lease agreement awarded to businessman John Jefferis for the former Stonington Beach Hotel in 2003 was not ?a sweetheart deal? but a sensible business decision which is now paying handsome dividends, Premier Alex Scott has argued.
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Community Affairs and Sports Minister Dale Butler said the relationship between quangos and Government was a difficult one as Ministers were supposed to be accountable yet not get deeply involved.
?I am at arm?s length and not supposed to micromanage...
DATE: Mar 09, 2005
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Furious Magistrate Edward King stormed out of the lower court yesterday morning during a verbal confrontation with Crown counsel Juan Wolffe over the prosecutor?s line of questioning of a witness in the Melanie Wedgwood trial.
Wedgwood, 43, is charge...
DATE: Mar 09, 2005
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Trimingham Brothers Ltd. ? Bermuda?s oldest and best-known department store ? will close its doors at the end of July with the loss of about 220 jobs.
The news follows several weeks of speculation that the store could either be sold or closed but wil...
DATE: Mar 09, 2005
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Parliamentary Registrar Sabrina Phillips is to retire in May but said she had absolutely loved her three years in the post which saw Bermuda move to single seat constituencies.
Ms Phillips, who is in her early 40s, said she intends to travel and then...
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One manager with decades of service said Trimingham?s had struggled against the odds.
?We were all working so hard to try to make everything work, to come up with promotion ideas and give customers what they wanted, making it better and prettier.
?Bu...
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