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Chief Immigration Officer Dr. Martin Brewer has said sloppy form filling by firms which should know better is to blame for much of the backlog in work permits.
And he said the fast track system had become swamped by over-eager employers who were doub...
DATE: Jul 16, 2002
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There is no leadership crisis in the United Bermuda Party, leader Grant Gibbons insisted yesterday.
And those leading a campaign to have Sir John Swan take over the party leadership are nostalgic for the UBP's heyday and hanging on to racial stereoty...
DATE: Jul 16, 2002
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The PLP's branch organisations overwhelmingly support Premier Jennifer Smith as party leader, according to chairman Neville Tyrrell.
But at least one branch organisation needs to make some more enquiries before it can make a definitive statement on h...
DATE: Jul 16, 2002
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Four hundred dollars was not enough loot for a brazen robber, who demanded that a Devonshire man remain in a closet while he continued to search his home.
The Railway Trail resident told Police on Friday that a masked man entered his house and demand...
DATE: Jul 16, 2002
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The Immigration Department is practising fraud by charging for work permits which never come and then charging again for landing permits, an angry employer has claimed.
The head of a medium size service company which brings in a lot of foreign worker...
DATE: Jul 16, 2002
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A drugs courier whose plane was diverted to Bermuda after he became ill from cocaine he had swallowed was sentenced to three years imprisonment yesterday.
DominicanRepublic national Ramon Concepcion was told to think himself lucky he wound up in Berm...
DATE: Jul 16, 2002
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A personality clash between top immigration staff is at the root of work permit delays according to one Immigration Board source.
He said: "Forms are piling up in boxes not being looked at because of the friction that exists between the two executive...
DATE: Jul 16, 2002
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A Supreme Court Judge expressed his anger at a ruling by the Court of Appeal last month that said he was too harsh when he handed a paedophile a ten-year jail term.
Assistant Justice Archie Warner said the judgement had impeded him from imposing prop...
DATE: Jul 16, 2002
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A New York family had reason to be grateful to the crew of Bermudian cargo vessel Oleander after it rescued their small fishing boat off the US coast.
The Oleander took on the role of protector to a small yacht that had strayed far away from land in ...
DATE: Jul 16, 2002
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Health Minister Nelson Bascome came under fire again in the House of Assembly on Friday over the long-awaited report into the asbestos scare at the new Southside housing development.
Members of the United Bermuda Party used the Motion to Adjourn sess...
DATE: Jul 15, 2002
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