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Former Government Minister Sir John Plowman has called for legislation to ensure pensioners are kept in insurance schemes after retirement.
Some companies remove former workers from cover, resulting in big medical bills for pensioners at a time when ...
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Consumer confidence in Bermuda has reached a new high for the year, according to the Bermuda Omnibus survey released yesterday by Total Marketing & Communications, and black residents continue to have the greatest faith in the economy.
The report, co...
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Advantage, the magazine of the Associated Landscaping Contractors of America, came to Bermuda with the intention of profiling Mr. Sousa's operation, Sousa's Landscape Management Comapany.
But grey skies don't seem to have hampered Peter Patau from wr...
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Heads of Bermuda's various Government Ministries and law enforcement agencies gathered together yesterday in an effort to find solutions in dealing with sexual offenders.
Nearly two dozen people, including Public Safety Minister Paula Cox, Commission...
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High-tech solutions can be applied to the age old problem of loneliness says elderly specialist and amateur computer buff Dr. Khin Myint.
Dr. Myint helped set up amateur radio in the UK for old people and now he is using the Internet to keep Bermuda'...
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Senators agreed yesterday there is a growing "underclass'' that is ever more divided from the rest of the community.
And they called for measures to solve the problem of youth violence, including a return to older values and sociological surveys.
The...
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Patrick Burgess
in the cold -- leaving its 33 members twiddling their thumbs for 18 months.
The Immigration Advisory Council (IAC) has met just once since its formation and has been ignored by the Minister of Labour and Home Affairs on the two major immigration issu...
DATE: Aug 24, 2000
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The tax court judge who assessed a massive judgment against United Parcel Service Corp. last year "misconstrued, misread, misconceived, disregarded and distorted'' the company's actions and US tax law, UPS lawyers wrote in an 84-page brief filed this...
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record of their career at sea.
This follows the passing of the Merchant Shipping Fees Amendment Regulations 2000 in the Senate on Monday.
Captain Pat Nawaratne, Principal Marine Surveyor at Marine and Ports Services, explained that the new legislatio...
DATE: Aug 24, 2000
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Armed Police were denied entry to Westgate prison after they arrived to assist with a drugs swoop.
An "amicable'' confrontation between Emergency Response Team members and Prison officials occurred outside the building after concerns that the ERT's p...
DATE: Aug 24, 2000
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