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Nothing brings a community together like a tragedy, as the past week has shown in the Asian community in Bermuda. Since the tsunami disaster in South Asia on December 26, nationals from the effected countries have gathered almost daily in an effort t...
DATE: Jan 04, 2005
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Bermuda bore witness to many accidents, road fatalities and other tragedies throughout the year.
There were seven deaths on the Island's roads in 2004.
In February, guest worker Donald Leger of Canada, was killed in a road traffic accident. Donald Le...
DATE: Jan 04, 2005
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Comic Bill Cosby will be the guest speaker at the 85th Anniversary dinner for the Bermuda Union of Teachers next month.
The American comedian and actor made headlines last year, not for his humour, but for taking aim at blacks who failed to take resp...
DATE: Jan 04, 2005
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Despite assurances from the Premier, at the close of 2004 Bermuda has yet to see any legislation updating anti-corruption laws in an effort to prevent scandals such as those occurring at the Bermuda Housing Corporation.
The Police investigation into ...
DATE: Jan 04, 2005
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A 33-year old man has been charged with the Boxing Day murder of Nicholas Dill in Warwick.
In a court room swarming with Police officers on Friday, Andre Kirk Hypolite appeared before Magistrate Edward King accused of murder, unlawfully wounding Dill...
DATE: Jan 04, 2005
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Frustrating as it may be to be the Opposition, United Bermuda Party Leader Grant Gibbons is raring to go in 2005.
With ongoing issues such as affordable housing, economic empowerment, the Bermuda Housing Corporation (BHC) scandal, and the still-unfin...
DATE: Jan 03, 2005
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Despite more taxis being made available to deal with party revellers on New Years? Eve, sidewalks in Front Street remained lined with people until 4 a.m.
People were begging police to help them get home as the Island?s taxi service seemed incapable i...
DATE: Jan 03, 2005
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A Bermuda relief fund for Sri Lanka got a huge boost on Friday when a supermarket chain gave it $20,000.
The fund, which hopes to be formally registered as a charity tomorrow, is raising money for reconstruction from the Boxing Day tsunami which deva...
DATE: Jan 03, 2005
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Bermuda welcomed in 2005 with the births of five new babies.
The first to arrive at 8.58 a.m. was seven pound, four ounce, baby boy Kint Ezekial Armstrong.
"I'm just very grateful he's here," his mother Shilik Hayward said from her King Edward VII Me...
DATE: Jan 03, 2005
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Inquiries about a luxury ?boutique airline? which plans a service from Bermuda to London have been flooding in to a local travel agency even though tickets are not yet on sale.
Fly First Class is waiting on UK and US aviation authority approvals befo...
DATE: Jan 03, 2005
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