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More Police on the streets. Speed radars. Tougher penalties. Education initiatives...
Bermudians have any number of answers to the challenge of making the roads more safe.
Some people even spoke from the painful experience of being involved in an acc...
DATE: Aug 29, 2003
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People walking by King's Square in St. George's yesterday morning were greeted with a startling sight: 675 people standing safely at station in the square, complete with brilliant orange life vests. Just in case.
The crew of the cruise ship Norwegian...
DATE: Aug 29, 2003
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Bermuda and its leading hotels have slipped down a poll on best holiday destinations by readers of the prestigious `Travel + Leisure' magazine.
Bermuda was top island in the Caribbean, Bermuda and Bahamas in the magazine's poll last year, but this ye...
DATE: Aug 28, 2003
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Three computers disappeared from the Victor Scott Primary School earlier this week.
The three silver-coloured Compaq computers were taken from the school's computer room sometime between 3 p.m. Monday and 5 p.m. Tuesday. Police were called to the sch...
DATE: Aug 28, 2003
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Trevor Moniz's obstinacy paid off last night when the United Bermuda Party (UBP) gave him a more high-powered portfolio after he refused to be Shadow Telecommunications Minister.
Lawyer Mr. Moniz will now be Shadow Attorney General in a newly-created...
DATE: Aug 28, 2003
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Head of the Civil Service Stanley Oliver retires today after more than 20 years of public service.
His responsibilities will transfer to Cabinet Secretary John Drinkwater.
Mr. Oliver said yesterday: "I would like to say thank you to all of the wonder...
DATE: Aug 28, 2003
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The Acting Director of Public Prosecutions believes more staff would help avoid a repeat of problems such as Tuesday's dismissal of a multi-million dollar drugs case.
Six men had been accused of conspiring to smuggle $11 million of cannabis and $600,...
DATE: Aug 28, 2003
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After a month in Edinburgh, Aaron Daniels' is off to Cuba for a year thanks to a scholarship from the Ross `Blackie' Talbot Foundation.
The 14-year-old from Pembroke is heading to Havana's National School of Music to further his study of the piano, d...
DATE: Aug 28, 2003
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Teenager Michael Cardoso would do anything to turn back the clock. The 16-year-old is adjusting to life in a wheelchair after a bike accident earlier this year left him paralysed from the chest down.
Learning to live within his new limits, he said he...
DATE: Aug 28, 2003
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Labour leader and ruling party backbencher Derrick Burgess yesterday advocated changing the law to prohibit age discrimination.
His stance supports proposals by the Opposition United Bermuda Party (UBP) to provide elderly people with better legal pro...
DATE: Aug 28, 2003
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