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Lightning knocked out power in dozens of properties across the Island yesterday.
Bermuda Electric Light Company staff worked flat out through the day to replace numerous damaged transformers.
Thunderstorms over the last two days also brought severe f...
DATE: Jul 08, 2004
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The Prison Officers? Association (POA) has again expressed anxiety about the axing of two top Bermudian managers alongside Commissioner John Prescod.
POA chairman Mike Tuzo said his union?s objective had been specifically aimed at the removal of Mr. ...
DATE: Jul 07, 2004
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Government risked being ripped off when they failed to shop around for a contractor to complete repairs in Dockyard after Hurricane Fabian, Shadow Health Minister Michael Dunkley has claimed.
And Works and Engineering Minister Ashfield DeVent confirm...
DATE: Jul 07, 2004
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Taxi operators opposed to Government?s bid to force them to install global positioning systems (GPS) are planning to lobby Senators over the issue.
In 2002 the Bill was blocked in the Upper Chamber after being passed in the House of Assembly but sinc...
DATE: Jul 07, 2004
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Senators will today debate an Opposition take note motion on society's handling of prisoners after their release.
Senator Kenneth Bascome is expected to move the motion which reads "that the Senate take note of the urgent need for reform to the curre...
DATE: Jul 07, 2004
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A Police officer beat up a schoolboy after arresting him for stealing his bike, Magistrates' Court heard.
Devron Richardson, who was 15 at the time of the alleged attack, claimed P.c. Terrance Baldwin Smith punched him in the face in the back of a pa...
DATE: Jul 07, 2004
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Two men have been jailed for the machete murder of Bermudian Greg Daniels in Jamaica, including his former groundsman who plotted the killing after being sacked.
However Jamaican Police revealed another man was still wanted for the murder.
Mr. Daniel...
DATE: Jul 07, 2004
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Bermudian Reverends Trevor Woolridge and Leonard Santucci got scant support in their bids to become bishops in the AME Church yesterday.
One church member told The Royal Gazette that Rev. Woolridge got four votes and Rev. Santucci just one in their a...
DATE: Jul 07, 2004
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A Pembroke man was remanded yesterday after a jury unanimously convicted him of housebreaking.
Fingerprint evidence proved key in the Crown?s case against Toriano Elmario Dunkley, 33, after his prints were lifted off a tin can inside the house of Leo...
DATE: Jul 07, 2004
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Many Bermuda homes and businesses might have their electricity shut off as temperatures rise in July and August.
The warning was sounded yesterday by Bermuda Electric Light Company CEO Garry Madeiros.
Mr. Madeiros told Hamilton Rotarians he was plann...
DATE: Jul 07, 2004
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