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Britain cannot keep giving Overseas Territories an ?ever-increasing degree of autonomy? or London will not be able to meet its international obligations, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said yesterday.
Speaking at the end of the Overseas Territories Con...
DATE: Dec 11, 2003
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A catalogue of health and safety concerns at the overcrowded Westgate facility have been put to Government by furious prison officers.
A Prison Officers? Association report to the Commissioner of Prisons, obtained by lists a worrying series of proble...
DATE: Dec 11, 2003
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A 35-year-old man appeared in Magistrates? Court yesterday to face indictable charges of importation and possession of cannabis worth over half a million dollars. Jamal Hart, of Frog Lane, Hamilton Parish, is charged with importing cannabis on July ...
DATE: Dec 11, 2003
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Local businessman McCal Roberts said he had been mistaken when he announced he would be setting up a website in the New Year which would stream live broadcasts from Bermuda's television channels ZFB, VSB and Fresh TV.
"I want to apologise to all the ...
DATE: Dec 11, 2003
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Jurors in the Lagoon Park murder trial yesterday watched a Police detective dramatically slide a broken knife blade into a wooden block seized from a suspect's mother's home shortly after his arrest.
Broken at the handle, the knife, which a pathologi...
DATE: Dec 11, 2003
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Bermudian conservation projects could benefit from a new environment protection fund for overseas territories which was unveiled yesterday.
A $4.5 million (?3 million) fund from the Foreign Office is designed to help eco-systems threatened with destr...
DATE: Dec 11, 2003
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Premier Alex Scott warned Britain yesterday that to appoint a non-Bermudian Chief Justice against the will of Government would be a “regressive step”.
Mr. Scott spent half an hour yesterday with Overseas Territories Minister Bill Rammell “forcibly” t...
DATE: Dec 11, 2003
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A new walking trail with interpretative panels has been created by the National Trust along the waterside of Warwick Pond on Middle Road.
It will be officially opened by the Environment Minister Neletha Butterfield today at 10 a.m.
The panels inform ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2003
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Government is to drop its bid to turn arable land at Frog Lane into a revamped Transport Control Department (TCD), Minister Ewart Brown said last night.
Both Dr. Brown and TCD director Kevin Monkman were tight-lipped about the reasons.
Dr. Brown told...
DATE: Dec 10, 2003
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Government said yesterday it followed parliamentary rules “to the letter” when it changed the law to make parents more responsible for their children's education before it published new school rules.
Acting Education Minister Senator Michael Scott re...
DATE: Dec 10, 2003
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