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Parish councils may be overhauled following the recent completion of a review of quangos, Health Minister Patrice Minors reported during parliamentary question time on Friday.
Mrs. Minors responded in writing to questions posed by her shadow counterp...
DATE: May 31, 2004
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THEBERMUDA Housing Corporation will pursue arrangements for transferring leaseholds into freehold ownership of homes in the Mary Victoria/Alexandra Road area, after completing maintenance work there, according to Housing Minister Ashfield DeVent (pic...
DATE: May 31, 2004
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Almost half of Bermuda's public school students left school without completing their BSSC in 1998 and 1999, Government reported on Friday.
The numbers improved slightly in 2000 and 2001, with 65 and 66 percent respectively graduating compared to the ...
DATE: May 31, 2004
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Access Bermuda has been dedicated to providing awareness throughout the Island about disabled people.
Access Bermuda 2004 will be holding a conference, ?Empowerment and Inclusion?, from June 4-11.
Al Swain, who lost his sight at nine and the use of ...
DATE: May 31, 2004
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The ninth person to be charged in connection with the Wellington Oval disturbance appeared in Magistrates? Court yesterday to face an attempted murder charge.
Tahir Bascome, 22, of Dunscombe Road, Warwick, did not enter a plea because the charge is i...
DATE: May 29, 2004
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Government MPs stifled an Opposition debate calling for MPs to undergo testing for drug and alcohol abuse in Parliament yesterday.
Government whip Ottiwell Simmons said the Opposition was not allowed to bring motions to the House which had financial ...
DATE: May 29, 2004
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Flo the Flamingo has often been seen wading through Bermuda?s ponds or flying around the Island since she first broke out of her enclosure at the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo (BAMZ) after Hurricane Emily in 1987.
?She spent ten years flitting arou...
DATE: May 29, 2004
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Olga Scott, the former Director of the Department of Financial Assistance, has been taken on as a consultant with the Department, at a cost of over $9,000 a month.
Responding to questions from her Shadow counterpart, Michael Dunkley, Health Minister ...
DATE: May 29, 2004
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Government yesterday denied charges of "capitulating" to teachers' demands in the recently concluded pay dispute, and announced that the dispute had forced the cancellation of system-wide end-of- year student tests.
In a statement to the House of Ass...
DATE: May 29, 2004
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A Black Widow spider has been found on a building site is Southampton according to Government Plant Protection Officer Claire Jessey. She said it was possible there were more on the Island - they can give a nasty bite and in rare occasions can be fat...
DATE: May 29, 2004
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