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The idea of a cultural memorandum of understanding with the Azores or Portugal has been deemed unnecessary by Cultural Affairs Minister Dale Butler.
Portuguese activist Robert Pires raised the issue of such a memorandum, similar to the memorandum rec...
DATE: Oct 24, 2003
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He earned the moniker "mushroom guru" for his research on mushrooms, and even has a mushroom named after him.
But 88-year-old Samuel Ristich's real claim to fame for Bermudians is as the "discoverer" of the Cahow in 1945.
Mr. Ristich was working as a...
DATE: Oct 24, 2003
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The Earl of Wessex arrived in Bermuda today to survey the damage left by Hurricane Fabian and to honour victims killed in last month's storm.
The Earl, better known as Prince Edward, the third and youngest son of the Queen, greeted Governor Sir John ...
DATE: Oct 24, 2003
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The Postmaster General has announced that a shipment of delayed surface mail out of the UK dating back to May has just been cleared for delivery in Bermuda.
It arrived in Bermuda via Florida.
Surface mail which is shipped from the UK usually takes tw...
DATE: Oct 24, 2003
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A self-styled equal opportunity magistrate voiced his view that women as well as men should be conscripted to the Regiment in Magistrates' Court yesterday.
Acting Senior Magistrate Carlisle Greaves said he believes in "equal rights, equal dues" after...
DATE: Oct 24, 2003
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Wedco unveiled plans yesterday for five townhouses in Dockyard Terrace to be renovated for rent.
Tenders will go out in the next two weeks for the units with work set to start before end of this year and to be completed by late 2004.
The homes, on th...
DATE: Oct 24, 2003
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A Police officer was headbutted, pushed and kicked in the stomach when a man guilty of nothing more than a traffic offence turned nasty.
The officer stopped to speak to a man whose car was parked illegally.
He told the 41-year-old that his vehicle, w...
DATE: Oct 23, 2003
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Jamaican man may be deported
A Jamaican man may be deported this week after a court found he "overstayed his welcome".
Robert David White, 24, from St. Andrew's in Jamaica, arrived in Bermuda on May 18, 2002 with permission to spend 21 days on the Is...
DATE: Oct 23, 2003
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Government will not decide whether a public inquiry should be held into the death of prison inmate Steven (Pepe) Dill until the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has reviewed the file.
Minister for Labour and Home Affairs Randolph Horton said las...
DATE: Oct 23, 2003
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Though a recent outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease at a local nursery had some parents worried, authorities said yesterday the disease is completely different from the foot-and-mouth disease contracted by European livestock.
The Royal Gazette u...
DATE: Oct 23, 2003
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