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Seniors are to get their pension increase in time for Christmas, Government announced yesterday.
But during heated discussions in the house, Opposition members accused of treating Bermuda?s older citizens with ?contempt and disregard?.
Mr. Cox told t...
DATE: Dec 06, 2003
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The United Bermuda Party yesterday welcomed Tourism Minister Renee Webb?s statement she would consider moving to a bi-partisan tourism authority to get the struggling industry back on track.
At the public forum on tourism on Thursday, Ms Webb said to...
DATE: Dec 06, 2003
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Visitors have reacted with alarm to suggestions like casinos and nude beaches to revive the tourism industry made at a public forum on Thursday night.
Bermuda.com founder Tony Brannon argued for nude beaches, and some of the panel backed his calls fo...
DATE: Dec 06, 2003
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Former Government Forensic Pathologist John Obafunwa admitted on the stand yesterday that he may have missed two cuts to a muscle shirt found at the scene of the murder of American Stanley Lee.
Candidly admitting the omission, Dr. Obafunwa said two c...
DATE: Dec 06, 2003
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Prisoners from Westgate will be temporarily housed in the Co-ed Facility at Ferry Reach to ease overcrowding, has learned.
Home Affairs Minister Randy Horton has signed an order under Section 54 of the Prison Act 1979 to allow the facility ? which on...
DATE: Dec 06, 2003
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A defence counsel was told he would be sent to jail if he didn?t quit interrupting the plea court session yesterday in Magistrates? Court.
Acting Senior Magistrate Carlisle Greaves told defence lawyer Peter Farge he would send him to jail along with ...
DATE: Dec 06, 2003
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The chairman of the scandal-hit Bermuda Housing Corporation was paid more than $20,000 for three months? work, it emerged yesterday.
Shadow Housing Minister Wayne Furbert squeezed the information out of Government during questions to his counterpart ...
DATE: Dec 06, 2003
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Government is to remove tenants and revamp a housing block to sell off to the middle classes, Housing Minister Terry Lister announced yesterday.
He said 16 two-bedroom, two-bathroom units in Anchorage Road, St. George's would be sold at around $600,0...
DATE: Dec 05, 2003
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Residents are being urged to rush in today as nominations close for the annual search for the Island's best tourism ambassadors.
The BELCO Visitor Industry Partnership (VIP) Excellence award deadline ends today and organisers say they are hoping for ...
DATE: Dec 05, 2003
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Three months to the day after Hurricane Fabian wreaked havoc on Bermuda and closed the Island off to the outside world for days, things are back to normal on most fronts.
But the after-effects of the worst storm to hit Bermuda in a century are still ...
DATE: Dec 05, 2003
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