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A Jamaican charged with importing more than $230,000 of cocaine walked free yesterday after a Supreme Court jury was deadlocked after seven hour?s deliberation.
Lincoln George Brown, 37, from Rock Valley, Warwick, had pleaded not guilty to charges of...
DATE: Feb 08, 2005
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Deputy Opposition Leader and Shadow Minister of Housing Wayne Furbert has compared the Bermuda Housing Corporation to the Russian KGB.
The BHC recently sent letters to its tenants requesting letters from their employers stating their monthly or annua...
DATE: Feb 07, 2005
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Drug-fighting sailors to visit in May
The HMS Liverpool will be docking in Bermuda in May in a goodwill visit to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Island becoming a British colony.
Until then the Cammell Laird-built destroyer is on a six month m...
DATE: Feb 07, 2005
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Deputy Premier and Tourism Minister Ewart Brown is in Zambia this week in an effort to revive the African Diaspora Heritage Trail. Recommendations are also being made to the Public Services Commission regarding the hiring of a folklife officer to hea...
DATE: Feb 07, 2005
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Just last year, Bermuda shorts were featured in a magazine ad for The Learning Channel show "What Not to Wear".
This year, however, they are headlining at Fashion Week in New York City - just another testament to the short cycle of fashion.
"Try on t...
DATE: Feb 07, 2005
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Children have to read more ? not because they have to, but because they want to.
That?s the message from Dr. Charline Barnes, professor of literacy at Adelphi University in the US who was a guest speaker at the Reading Conference held at the Fairmont...
DATE: Feb 07, 2005
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Albert Santucci, the 45-year-old Southampton man who was pulled from a plane by gun-toting Canadian police in September last year and denied entry to the country, has filed a writ against Police Commissioner Jonathan Smith.
Mr. Santucci, who had grad...
DATE: Feb 07, 2005
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The Argus Group said there was a massive response on Friday for its new health insurance plan.
?The general response from the public has been overwhelming,? Argus President and CEO Gerald Simons said. ?In fact, I have received one or two telephone ca...
DATE: Feb 07, 2005
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Islanders turned out in droves to support of the Bermuda National Trust?s annual Plant and Bake Sale at the weekend at the waterside grounds of Waterville Park in Paget and more than $10,000 was raised within hours of opening.
National Trust spokespe...
DATE: Feb 07, 2005
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Bermuda Housing Corporation held information sessions at the weekend for prospective homebuyers for the Harbourside Village, Marginal Wharf and St. David's proposed housing developments.
Sessions were held at Victor Scott Primary School.
BHC staff re...
DATE: Feb 07, 2005
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