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Bermuda Taxi Association spokesman Lee Tucker has defended cabbies who do not go to jobs they have accepted.
Mr. Tucker was replying to criticism from members of the public who say they are fed up with what they called shoddy service.
One man, who wi...
DATE: Aug 30, 2002
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The Boundaries Commission's report on new electoral arrangements has been completed and will be presented to the Acting Governor today.
The House of Assembly is expected to be recalled for the tabling of the report before it can be publicised and its...
DATE: Aug 30, 2002
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Nine people were stung with fines yesterday as Government used the courts to clamp down on mosquito breeding sites.
However the session turned into farce for a moment when Magistrate Will Francis started to hand out fines bigger than the maximum allo...
DATE: Aug 30, 2002
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Government is clamping down on cabbies driving without radios by mounting spot checks at Bermuda International Airport.
Acting Transport Control Department (TCD) Director Roxanne Christopher said the policy had been operating for about a month and so...
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Former US Secretary of Labor W.J. (Bill) Usery was welcomed back to Bermuda yesterday as this year's guest speaker at the Labour Day celebrations.
The top American labour mediator will speak on Monday about his life in labour-management relations, wh...
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The Progressive Labour Party (PLP) should pay back thousands of dollars of taxpayers' money used to produce and broadcast Premier Jennifer Smith's February address to the nation, says the United Bermuda Party.
The call comes after the Broadcast Commi...
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A Magistrate was full of quotes yesterday as he chastised two mothers who claimed they were doing all they could to ensure that their children attended school, before he granted them absolute discharges.
"The responsibility does not end when you drop...
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Bermuda's shared heritage will be the focus of this year's Labour Day March, say organisers.
And the "reinvented" Joint Labour Day Organising Committee has broadened its representation to include not just labour unions but employers' organisations, G...
DATE: Aug 30, 2002
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Government is set to seek a court injunction today to block CableVision's bid to blackout its service from tomorrow after the company got angry about only being given a one-year licence renewal.
Telecommunications Minster Renee Webb said any further ...
DATE: Aug 30, 2002
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Ports workers were locked in talks last night over the latest proposals to get the new 5 p.m. Rockaway ferry service running.
It was due to start on Monday but crews objected to the way it was handled and refused to run the service. Marine and Ports ...
DATE: Aug 30, 2002
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