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A Magistrate will continue hearing evidence this morning against a Police officer charged with desertion after ruling the Crown had shown sufficient cause to believe the man did not intend to return to the Island.
In the “no case to answer” phase of ...
DATE: Jul 13, 2004
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Car insurance premiums have jumped up to 25 percent in the past year and insurers are blaming an increase in road traffic accidents as the industry lost $1.6 million last year.
Insurance companies across the Island have increased their car insurance ...
DATE: Jul 13, 2004
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Independent Senators are assessing their stance on Government's digital dispatching bill for the taxi industry as it heads to the Upper Chamber for the second time.
“I wouldn't say I've been lobbied I've been trying to make myself aware of what is di...
DATE: Jul 13, 2004
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Opposition MP Neville Darrell has filed a human rights complaint alleging discrimination against Bermudian applicants for the post of College president.
The Human Rights Act, which provides for public interest complaints, prohibits discrimination on ...
DATE: Jul 13, 2004
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Fewer than one third of students graduated from the Government schools system with the Bermuda School Certificate this year.
However the numbers rose from last year?s figure of 22 percent of students to 30 percent. In a press statement the Education ...
DATE: Jul 13, 2004
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By-elections are due in the Corporations of Hamilton and St. George's. Hamilton Alderman Reginald Minors, who has been on the Corporation for around ten years, is retiring because of travel commitments, said Mayor Lawson Mapp.
He said it was likely h...
DATE: Jul 13, 2004
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The Bermuda Cadet Corps have more than quadrupled their ranks this year, with almost as many cadets as there are soldiers in the Regiment itself.
After a massive effort to encourage schoolchildren to join, Cadet Corps public relations officer and cha...
DATE: Jul 13, 2004
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The Bio Station hit back at accusations of "biological piracy" yesterday, calling them "inaccurate" and a "disgrace".
Bermuda Biological Station for Research (BBSR) director Tony Knap spoke in response to an article in Friday's Royal Gazette. The sto...
DATE: Jul 13, 2004
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Ruling party spokesperson Scott Simmons? comments on his party?s poll results were inaccurately reported, according to Premier Alex Scott.
But the Bermuda Sun is standing by the accuracy of its report last Wednesday in which it reported that the Prem...
DATE: Jul 13, 2004
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The Crown has applied to freeze the assets of Terrence St. Patrick Smith, the former Bermuda Housing Corporation officer accused of trying to defraud the quango of almost $1.4 million. The Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has made the applicat...
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