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The Senate agreed to pass a bill yesterday that will establish the setting up of the new Unemployment Insurance Fund to financially assist people out of work.
Government Sen. Patrice Parris said this piece of legislation would prove helpful in the lo...
DATE: Mar 12, 2002
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Four people remained in hospital last night following two serious road accidents on Sunday.
However, one of the four, a ten-year-old boy from Somerset has made some improvement and has been taken out of the intensive care unit at King Edward VII Memo...
DATE: Mar 12, 2002
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The Island's Health and Safety inspector said yesterday there will not be a probe into a spate of construction accidents in recent weeks.
Government's Health & Safety, Inspector Harry Powell commented after an excavator toppled over onto a crane at t...
DATE: Mar 12, 2002
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A West African man appeared in Magistrates Court yesterday charged with possessing and importing heroin into the Island earlier this month.
French-speaking Yaloo Mitchai, 22, needed the assistance of an interpreter when he appeared before Magistrate ...
DATE: Mar 12, 2002
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Opposition Senate Leader Kim Swan attacked Government's willingness to splash the cash, deriding claims by Government Senator Patrice Parris that Government was continuing to listen to the community on the Budget.
Speaking during the opening salvoes ...
DATE: Mar 12, 2002
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Politicians must lead by example and treat each other with civility if tourism is to be revitalised, Senator Calvin Smith told the Upper Chamber yesterday.
And in a rare show of unity in the Senate, there were murmurs of approval from Opposition memb...
DATE: Mar 12, 2002
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Staff at Daniel's Head eco-resort remain in the dark today about the future of their jobs after a meeting with workers was cancelled yesterday.
The 30 or so employees at the environmentally-friendly holiday village in Somerset were expecting to meet ...
DATE: Mar 12, 2002
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Former Jamaica prisons boss John Prescod has been appointed as Bermuda's new Commissioner of Prisons.
Home Affairs and Public Safety Minister Terry Lister said he hoped Mr. Prescod, 53, would slash recidivism rates by 50 percent just as he did in his...
DATE: Mar 12, 2002
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Despite an international delegation's plea for clemency, Georgia's parole board decided yesterday not to stop the execution of Bermuda born Tracy Housel.
Housel, 43, who was convicted of the murder of Jean Drew, a Georgia mother he had met in a resta...
DATE: Mar 12, 2002
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Scores of taxi drivers have been left in limbo after their insurer axed their health policy.
Canadian Life Assurance wrote to Island Wide Taxi Service last week saying that group coverage will cease from May 1.
Gordon Flood of Island Wide Taxi Servic...
DATE: Mar 11, 2002
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