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Parliament yesterday passed a new law aimed at improving the Police's ability to collect evidence from crime suspects and setting procedures to be followed for arresting and detaining suspects.
The Police Amendment Act 2003 will give the Police the t...
DATE: Mar 15, 2003
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The purity of an illegal drug is not a mitigating factor when a judge hands down a prison term, Acting Assistant Justice Charles-Etta Simmons said yesterday before she sentenced an American drug mule to four and a half years behind bars.
Mrs. Justice...
DATE: Mar 15, 2003
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United Bermuda Party (UBP) senators were fuming after being granted only minutes to debate the Health Ministry in yesterday's budget session.
But Government Senator Calvin Smith said the Opposition was to blame as it was their choice to spend only tw...
DATE: Mar 15, 2003
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Gas prices jumped by 1.2 cents a litre and diesel prices went up by 0.2 cents per litre yesterday.
The latest rise means gas prices are now 15 percent higher than in December 2001.
The maximum retail price for gasoline will be 137.40 cents per litre ...
DATE: Mar 15, 2003
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Perhaps some employees feel more of an urge to run away from work instead of running to work.
However that is just what the Department of Health is encouraging people to do on April 9 - the new official "Cycle, Run or Walk to Work Day".
Concerned abo...
DATE: Mar 15, 2003
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Recent attempts by top defence lawyers to boycott legal aid cases in a bid to push up fees are completely unnecessary, according to Health Minister Nelson Bascome and Bermuda Bar Association president Trevor Moniz.
This is in light of the fact that d...
DATE: Mar 15, 2003
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Two Warwick Academy basketball teams will try to break the Guinness Book of World Record time for the longest game played.
The current record,set by Australians in 1998, is 24 hours. The students plan to beat this by two hours starting at 4 p.m. toda...
DATE: Mar 15, 2003
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Random drug tests in prison, introduced late last year, have already succeeded in reducing drug use in the Island's prison, Government claimed yesterday.
Public Safety Minister Terry Lister also told his parliamentary colleagues that other initiative...
DATE: Mar 15, 2003
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The Ministry of Education has clarified its position on plans to introduce character building programmes to the Island's schools following concerns and questions from the Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT).
Union General Secretary Michael Charles said u...
DATE: Mar 14, 2003
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New Berkeley school builder ProActive Management Systems is to invite Shadow Works and Engineering Minister Erwin Adderley to the site after he labelled a wall dangerous.
Mr. Adderley said in the House of Assembly that a source on site had said a ret...
DATE: Mar 14, 2003
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