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Tourism and Telecommunications Minister Renee Webb said yesterday that while she tried to give contracts to black-owned companies wherever possible, it only happened on an "ad hoc" basis throughout the rest of Government.
As the Bermuda Employers Cou...
DATE: Nov 20, 2002
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High-rise housing on the outskirts of the city of Hamilton may be the answer to Bermuda's affordable housing problem, suggested former Premier Sir John Swan this week.
Sir John - who is currently developing a 68-unit apartment block of luxury units o...
DATE: Nov 20, 2002
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Government school CedarBridge Academy broke Island-wide regulations on Monday when it sent hundreds of children home for failing to have blazers, it emerged last night.
According to the Ministry of Education's new Code of Conduct, which was implement...
DATE: Nov 20, 2002
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The teachers' union last night said it may consider withdrawing its support from the new school Code of Conduct after claiming that the document was pushed through before the consultation process was complete.
Anthony Wolffe, president of the Bermuda...
DATE: Nov 20, 2002
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Workers at Bermuda General Agency (BGA) held a sit in yesterday to complain about the firing of a long-standing employee for taking an unauthorised holiday.
Bermuda Industrial Union president Derrick Burgess said the company had refused o discuss the...
DATE: Nov 20, 2002
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A decade after he was crippled in a tragic fall, carpenter Rennard Russell was in Supreme Court this week as his former boss is appealing a 2001 decision which attributed partial liability for the accident to him.
Mr. Russell was crossing a rooftop g...
DATE: Nov 20, 2002
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Tourism Minister Renee Webb yesterday accused David Dodwell of twisting the truth for political purposes when he said no one had been paid anything from the Hotel Concessions Act.
The Shadow Tourism Minister said none of the seven hotels which applie...
DATE: Nov 20, 2002
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Government needs to make the family a priority and start educating and empowering boys if it is to stop many of the social ills plaguing the "matriarchal" Island, an expert has claimed.
Author and domestic violence guru Erin Pizzey, who has been in B...
DATE: Nov 20, 2002
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Ousted pastor of the Mount Zion AME church Reverend Christopher Haynes and his family are facing considerable hardship after the church instructed Belco to cut off the electricity supply to the parsonage.
According to Rev Haynes, his replacement Reve...
DATE: Nov 20, 2002
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Customs and Police are believed to be appealing after Supreme Court ordered that costs and damages - possibly worth up to six figures - be paid to a number of businesses who had gaming machines illegally seized.
Assistant Justice Archibald Warner fou...
DATE: Nov 20, 2002
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