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Premier Jennifer Smith yesterday called the long-awaited election for July 24 and was in a confident mood that the Progressive Labour Party would win a second term in office.
United Bermuda Party leader Grant Gibbons welcomed the news and declared t...
DATE: Jun 11, 2003
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Taxi drivers and employers may be breathing a sigh of relief today because the calling of an election has delayed legislation they opposed.
Transport Minister Dr. Ewart Brown had promised to reintroduce a bill requiring global positioning systems in ...
DATE: Jun 11, 2003
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It's going to be a close one - if the opinions of a few randomly selected voters are anything to go by. While no one felt sure which of the two main political parties will head up the next Bermuda government, practically every single one of them expr...
DATE: Jun 11, 2003
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Colleagues of Bermuda's latest road traffic fatality observed a moment of silence yesterday morning at the plant where he would have clocked in.
Bermuda Telephone Company workers at the St. John's Road facility also offered prayers in memory of fibre...
DATE: Jun 11, 2003
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The Opposition United Bermuda Party (UBP) welcomed the news that the election date had been set with a show of confidence and bravado on the steps of the House of Assembly yesterday afternoon.
“The people have been shut out of the process for the las...
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Two men were fined $1,000 each yesterday in Magistrates' Court after being picked up for impaired driving.
The court heard that Jonathan Bucy, 31, of Southampton was driving on Mullet Bay Road in St. George's on April 27, 2003 when Police noticed he ...
DATE: Jun 11, 2003
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Parliamentary Registrar Sabrina Phillips is encouraging all eligible voters to make sure they are registered to vote, either in person or online.
And Mrs. Phillips warned any voter who has moved or altered his or her name since the last election coul...
DATE: Jun 11, 2003
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All's well with the Filipino community in Bermuda, according to Jocelyn Batoon-Garcia, Minister and Consul General at the Washington D.C. embassy of the Republic of the Philippines, who made a whirlwind trip to Bermuda over the weekend to join in the...
DATE: Jun 10, 2003
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Britain is taking a "closer look" at Bermuda's plans to step up cultural ties to Cuba after the European Union (EU) passed sanctions against the Communist regime, the United Kingdom Foreign Office said yesterday.
The European sanctions - including a ...
DATE: Jun 10, 2003
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The Bank of Bermuda sacked 14 staff yesterday after catching them distributing pornographic e-mails.
Head of corporate communications Peter Smith refused to divulge the nature of the e-mails but said they had consisted of both words and pictures.
The...
DATE: Jun 10, 2003
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