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The number of arrests for drink-driving fell almost ten percent last year over 2001, according to statistics released yesterday by the Bermuda Police Service.
The numbers were greeted with cautious optimism by Police but plans are also underway to ta...
DATE: Jan 04, 2003
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Local sea captains who set out on a recovery mission to find an abandoned yacht over the holiday had a fright when their boat ran into engine trouble and set them adrift.
After searching a twenty square mile area for the Altair, the Sundeck 36-foot p...
DATE: Jan 03, 2003
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Police could bring more people before the courts in connection with the "riot" in Hamilton in the early hours of New Years' Day once they have trawled through camera footage with a fine tooth comb.
Both Police and the Corporation of Hamilton yesterda...
DATE: Jan 03, 2003
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Health Minister Nelson Bascome says Government may have to step in and take over drug services after a year of closures.
And it will do so under a new National Drugs Commission head after Mr. Bascome confirmed that present chairman Malcolm Butterfiel...
DATE: Jan 03, 2003
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Work to re-establish part of the Railway Trail will be starting this week along the foreshore of Shelly Bay, the Parks Department announced on Thursday.
The work will be carried out along the foreshore from Stonehaven Road to the concession building ...
DATE: Jan 03, 2003
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Violent clashes between Warwick and Pembroke Parish rivals on New Years Day led to charges being laid against four youths yesterday in Magistrates' Court.
An array of fights broke in the early hours of the holiday along Front Street causing the Polic...
DATE: Jan 03, 2003
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A study conducted off the coast of Bermuda two years ago has been credited with boosting international protection for white and blue marlins.
The study concluded that eight of nine marlins inadvertently hooked on fishing lines intended for tuna and o...
DATE: Jan 03, 2003
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Britain tried to get Bermuda to take some of the 57,000 Ugandan Asians whom former dictator Idi Amin was expelling in the 1970s, newly released secret papers reveal.
But the Island turned down the request from British Prime Minister Ted Heath in 1972...
DATE: Jan 03, 2003
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The Cabinet is staggering the release of the membership lists of Government-appointed boards because ministries have encountered delays in confirming that board members will serve.
Normally, the Government announces the members of its boards on the f...
DATE: Jan 03, 2003
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The number of domestic violence incidents reported over the holiday season has gone down on previous years, agencies have reported.
The Physical Abuse Centre said it was glad to report that only ten calls were received by the refuge over the Christma...
DATE: Jan 03, 2003
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