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Community activist, Khalid al-Wasi is elated over Community Affairs Minister Dale Butler's decision to halt the new policy of means testing instituted by the Human Rights Commission (HRC) until the Government's legal arm has reviewed it.
Before the n...
DATE: Feb 22, 2005
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As Louise Jackson is to seniors, so Jon Brunson and Gina Spence-Farmer plan to be to Bermuda?s young people.
Mr. Brunson, Shadow Youth and Sport Minister, and Mrs. Spence-Farmer, recently-approved UBP candidate for the next General Election, are call...
DATE: Feb 22, 2005
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A taxi driver told a Supreme Court jury how he had been choked by two men and his taxi stolen ? only to find the pair beaten in his neighbourhood some hours later.
The men are being tried separately after Anthony Alexander Outerbridge, 33, of no fixe...
DATE: Feb 22, 2005
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The Home Affairs Ministry been given a $6 million boost to its budget which will help fund eleven new officers for the Police Support Unit to round up gang members.
But Labour, Home Affairs and Public Safety Randy Horton also signalled an expansion t...
DATE: Feb 21, 2005
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A hi-tech burglar stole a laptop computer from a home in Southampton last week.
Police were called to a West Avenue home on Thursday where the complainant stated that between 3.30 p.m. and 4 p.m. that day, an unknown culprit gained entry in the home ...
DATE: Feb 21, 2005
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Government is set to write off the entire $44 million owed to the Consolidated Fund by the Public Service Superannuation Fund (PSSF), Finance Minister Paula Cox confirmed yesterday.
The move, while not solving the challenges faced by the PSSF, will c...
DATE: Feb 21, 2005
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Work begins today on the much-anticipated reconstruction of the long-closed Lantana resort in Somerset.
Premier Alex Scott, Governor Sir John Vereker and a host of other dignitaries will assemble at the site at 1 p.m to break ground on an ambitious p...
DATE: Feb 21, 2005
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The Department of Tourism is launching a new weekly radio show designed to encourage greater local participation in the flagging industry.
?Wake up Bermuda ? Tourism Now!? will take place every Monday from 12.15 to 1 p.m on ZBM 1340 AM and is to be h...
DATE: Feb 21, 2005
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Ten "selfless and hard working" Bermudians were honoured on Saturday at the Progressive Labour Party Drum Major Awards.
The annual ceremony, which was held at the Bermuda Industrial Union and was inspired by the legendary civil rights activist Martin...
DATE: Feb 21, 2005
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The rescue mission involving two fishing vessels stranded to the north of Bermuda was completed on Saturday night after the Bermudian tug towed both vessels in to the Island.
The was deployed on Thursday evening after the boats ? the Newfoundland f...
DATE: Feb 21, 2005
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