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Police Commissioner Jonathan Smith yesterday appealed for calm following the brutal shooting of student Shaundae Jones at the weekend.
Mr. Smith said additional Police units would be out in force, along with the 40 officers that were working on the i...
DATE: Apr 29, 2003
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Travellers are set to pay more for British Airways tickets after the airline announced last week it is reducing commission to Bermuda travel agents.
BA said it was essential to slash the commission of six to ten percent that travel agents get when se...
DATE: Apr 29, 2003
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Premier Jennifer Smith's decision to break with tradition and open the Annual Exhibition instead of the Governor has "downgraded" the event, according a former Parks Superintendent who worked the show for more than 30 years.
Meanwhile, there was stil...
DATE: Apr 29, 2003
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The flag at Bermuda College was flying at half mast yesterday in honour of murdered student Shaundae Winston Jones who was gunned down at the weekend.
Staff at the college paid tribute to the 20-year-old and described the Warwick man as being full of...
DATE: Apr 29, 2003
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Two Bermudians will be recognised tomorrow at a ceremony which honours female entrepreneurs.
They will receive a scholarship and a business development grant, both worth $10,000 from the Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the world organisation.
This yea...
DATE: Apr 29, 2003
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Magistrate Carlisle Greaves denied bail yesterday to three local men accused of the armed robbery of Grotto Bay Hotel.
St. George's resident Jahvon Outerbridge, 20, and Hamilton Parish residents Sidney Gibbons, 39, and Tariq White, 23, were ordered h...
DATE: Apr 29, 2003
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American Airlines passengers were up in arms at the Bermuda International Airport yesterday when their plane was grounded in New York, leaving them stranded at the airport for an expected eight hours.
"The plane suffered a series of mechanical diffic...
DATE: Apr 29, 2003
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Health Department officials spent the day yesterday trying to get to the bottom of reports that a Bermudian woman in Toronto had been affected by the SARS virus.
The woman was expected to fly back to the Island yesterday but called her employer to sa...
DATE: Apr 29, 2003
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Dr. Craig Venter, the scientist best known for sequencing the human genetic map, has won funding to do the same thing with the Sargasso Sea.
Dr. Venter will be working with the Bermuda Biological Station for Research (BBSR) to try to genetically sequ...
DATE: Apr 29, 2003
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A letter to the Editor claiming autism can be caused by the vaccines given to young children has been called "hysterical" and "irresponsible" by members of Bermuda's medical profession.
"The evidence linking the MMR (mumps/measles/rubella) vaccine to...
DATE: Apr 29, 2003
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