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Bermuda's two main political leaders today make their cases for why they believe their parties should form the next Government.
In wide-ranging interviews with The Royal Gazette, Premier Jennifer Smith and Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons defend their...
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Home Affairs Minister Terry Lister has reaffirmed his promise to host a summer summit involving the whole community on how many people the Island can comfortably hold.
Asked if he would be advocating a cap on work permit limits, Mr. Lister said it wa...
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United Bermuda Party leader Dr. Grant Gibbons was Finance Minister in the last UBP government and is a former senator and Minister of Management and Technology.
An academic high-flier, he studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford Universit...
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Stuck in Bermuda. That's the predicament many Azorean and Portuguese nationals are in at the moment with the Portuguese consulate closed.
Several local residents complained yesterday that the Portuguese Consulate has closed for holiday without any pu...
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A passionate yachtsman was ecstatic and overwhelmed yesterday by the kindness he found from local boaters who helped him salvage his 50-foot capsized yacht on the third attempt.
Tim Kent, the owner of the Everest Horizontal, was amazed that strangers...
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A: We've been doing a lot of listening over the last four or five years. After the 1998 election we were thinking very hard about what kind of a government Bermuda needs to move it forward in the 21st Century. There are a couple of things we learned ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2003
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A revised completion deadline is at last to be announced for the new secondary school project with a promise that it will be finished in a matter of months, Works Minister Alex Scott has claimed.
He said he had been given a new date for the completio...
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ermuda's new Deputy Governor Nick Carter is a very well travelled man. At 57-years-old, he has never spent more than five years at a time in any one country and has lived in such diverse places as Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, India and Latvia - to n...
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Broadcaster Ashfield DeVent is best known as court correspondent for VSB and the former co-host of Night Talk.
The 46-year-old was the newest MP in the House of Assembly when he comfortably won Pembroke East Central for the Progressive Labour Party l...
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The Progressive Labour Party's recently published 'record of accomplishments' is merely routine Government tasks dressed up as achievements, the United Bermuda Party claimed yesterday. The PLP would be claiming credit for the everything "from the sun...
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