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Government is to carry out a more thorough review of postal voting in a bid to extend the voting franchise in Bermuda.
Premier Jennifer Smith told Parliament yesterday that a committee set up to consider how it might be best extended had found that p...
DATE: May 03, 2003
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Parliament will soon put legislative finishing touches to electoral reform with the passage of amendments made necessary by the move to a single seat system.
Many of the changes are housekeeping matters made necessary by last year's Order in Council ...
DATE: May 03, 2003
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All possible steps to protect and prepare the Island for an outbreak of SARS had been taken, Health Minister Nelson Bascome said yesterday.
He said the approach by the Ministry had been to focus on prevention and education, however, he said his depar...
DATE: May 03, 2003
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The United Bermuda Party wants to de-politicise the Attorney General's office, bring the focus back on to alternatives to incarceration, and lower taxes, according to party leader Dr. Grant Gibbons.
"It's not that the concept (of a politically electe...
DATE: May 03, 2003
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Bermudian entertainers will be given a chance to showcase their talents to try to get hired in the tourism industry later this month.
Hoteliers, restaurateurs, promoters, management companies and cruise line representatives have been invited along to...
DATE: May 03, 2003
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Legislators yesterday unanimously passed a law aimed at protecting consumers from shoddy workmanship.
Many of the provisions of the Supply of Services (Implied Terms) Act 2003 are common law principles, but Government decided to bring the bill for cl...
DATE: May 03, 2003
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The Bermuda Industrial Union is to appeal after losing a key Supreme Court ruling over union recognition for firefighters at Bermuda International Airport.
Acting Puisne Judge Phillip Storr ruled yesterday that the Permanent Arbitration Tribunal had ...
DATE: May 03, 2003
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Young boys were overcome with emotion yesterday when the mother of Bermuda's latest murder victim went into schools to talk about the pain of violence.
A number of students aged between 11 and 14 broke down and cried at Dellwood Middle School at the ...
DATE: May 03, 2003
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A sailboat with five people onboard was taking on water and diverting to Bermuda last night after hitting a whale.
The 49-foot Compinche hit the whale 320 miles west-southwest of Bermuda around 5.40 p.m. yesterday and called the US Coast Guard in Nor...
DATE: May 03, 2003
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The settlement of the prison dispute which stipulates heavy Government supervision of Commissioner John Prescod will not force him to resign, Home Affairs Minister Terry Lister predicted yesterday.
Under the deal Mr. Prescod must have localisation tr...
DATE: May 03, 2003
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