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Government will recognise the achievement of local writers through a new biennial awards programme.
Development and Opportunity Minister Terry Lister yesterday announced that the Bermuda Literary Awards, saying he believed the awards programme "will ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2000
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to be built onto the Mercury House building on Front Street.
Simon Chadderton, building surveyor of Woodbourne Associates, yesterday said: "It is to be an extension to an existing structure.'' "An application had been submitted and approved ten year...
DATE: Jan 25, 2000
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busy signals this week because the building which houses their headquarters is getting a new telephone system. Both Education -- on 236-6904 -- and the Health & Social Services -- on 236-0224 -- are located in the old hospital building next to King E...
DATE: Jan 25, 2000
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The Police Cycle Crime Unit is reporting a degree of success in its continuing fight against bike theft.
A total of 92 cycles were stolen during December 1999. This represents a decrease from the comparable period in 1998 where 106 cycles were stolen...
DATE: Jan 25, 2000
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Heroin use is on the rise in Bermuda -- despite Police claims to the contrary, according to drugs experts.
In a faxed questionnaire last week Ch. Insp. Larry Smith, of the Narcotics squad, told The Royal Gazette that there was no evidence to say that...
DATE: Jan 24, 2000
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Machete-wielding Michael Reuben DeSilva attacked a man as he slept -- chopping an arm and severing a bone, a court heard.
Now the Sandys Parish teenager has a date with a Supreme Court judge.
Saying the offence was "far too serious'' to be dealt with...
DATE: Jan 24, 2000
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Patrick Burgess
Magistrates' Court on Dogs Act charges incorrectly identified Jennifer Dwinnell as one of the principles in the case. It is in fact her tenant, Felicity Cole, whose dog is alleged to have been attacked by the Horton dog.
Drunk driver nearly hit Polic...
DATE: Jan 24, 2000
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Premier Jennifer Smith accused Opposition MPs of twisting her words to score political points in a row over a massive review of the Civil Service.
And Ms Smith added that suggestions that UK experts drafted in to probe the Island's bureaucracy had ha...
DATE: Jan 24, 2000
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Plans for a new resort overlooking Castle Harbour could lead to a `glut' in expensive housing in Bermuda, according to Shadow Finance Minister Grant Gibbons.
The Minister also called on Government to provide more details on the project -- particularl...
DATE: Jan 24, 2000
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Teen heroin addicts are Bermuda's latest drug phenomenon, say narcotics experts.
Both National Drugs Commission Chief Executive Officer Derrick Binns and Focus counsellor Sandy Butterfield said they were appalled by the new trend.
Mrs. Butterfield sa...
DATE: Jan 24, 2000
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