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Cup Match fever has gripped thousands of Bermudians over the last 100 years - but now it seems that the cricket extravaganza is really beginning to filter through to the outside world.
Among the 15,000 people who gathered at Somerset Cricket Club yes...
DATE: Aug 03, 2002
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Former Environment Minister Arthur Hodgson launched a scathing attack in Parliament on Government's leadership style saying it had fallen into the trap of the United Bermuda Party of excluding opponents.
And the Opposition United Bermuda Party claime...
DATE: Aug 03, 2002
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The controversial Berkeley School project will be finished on time next September and on budget, Works and Engineering Minister Alex Scott told MPs on Wednesday.
He said he had not advised Education Minister Paula Cox that there would any need for co...
DATE: Aug 03, 2002
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Bermuda's Commonwealth Games cycling team were involved in a serious scare on Thursday night when the car in which they were travelling was involved in an accident.
All the Island's riders avoided serious injury in the incident, which happened around...
DATE: Aug 03, 2002
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A US citizen who was stopped for riding a motorbike with roughly four times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood was fined $800 in Plea Court on Wednesday.
Magistrate Will Francis gave 21-year old Shannon Baras a break, however, after hearing from...
DATE: Aug 03, 2002
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Bermuda and roughly 25 other countries will be releasing an omnibus issue of stamps commemorating the recently deceased Queen Mother Monday.
"The Queen Mother has always been held in great affection by people across the world, no more so than in the ...
DATE: Aug 03, 2002
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Bowing to public pressure, top US toolmaker Stanley Works last night dropped its controversial plan to re-incorporate in Bermuda following widespread criticism of the company's strategy for avoiding millions of dollars in US taxes.
Reuters and the As...
DATE: Aug 02, 2002
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US companies that have relocated to Bermuda suffered another blow on Thursday when the US Senate passed a defence spending bill that banned defence contractors that incorporate outside the US from receiving military contracts.
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DATE: Aug 02, 2002
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Saying American companies "ought to pay taxes and be good
citizens," President Bush acknowledged on Wednesday there is a
growing problem with U.S. companies relocating to offshore tax
havens - an issue Democrats are exploiting with an eye on the fall...
DATE: Aug 01, 2002
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West Indian Association President Trevor Fyfe said last night he was disappointed the Progressive Labour Party has delayed a promised debate on Caricom and that some Government MPs appear to be having doubts about associate membership.
A debate slate...
DATE: Jul 31, 2002
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