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all local avenues are exhausted By Matthew Taylor and Stephen Breen Understaffed Police have received the green light to start looking to recruit overseas.
But there could be a further staffing crisis in the spring as around 50 officers will come up...
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A Canadian who admitted his part in smuggling $150,000 of cocaine into Bermuda will be sentenced today.
William Maximchuk, of Calgary, Alberta, pleaded guilty to importing cocaine on June 28 last year. He has been remanded in custody since his arrest...
DATE: Jan 04, 2000
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held to ransom'' if the Bermuda Industrial Union became the "cohesive'' voice for the taxi industry.
But Transport Minister Ewart Brown said Ms Gordon's view was "very negative'', adding Government saw the BIU much more as a "partner'', a relationshi...
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There will be an all-or-nothing battle early next month to be the head of the Island's white collar union.
General secretary of the 2,600-member Bermuda Public Services Association Ed Ball Jr. said last night president Betty Christopher and past pres...
DATE: Jan 04, 2000
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weekend.
Former teacher Madeline Kent-Smith died as she slept in Fort Lauderdale, early yesterday.
Mrs. Kent-Smith, who was the wife of former VSB newscaster Gary Kent-Smith, had been ill for just over three years and was just a few weeks short of he...
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yesterday morning.
Gido Simmons, who was fishing off the West End on his friend's boat, the Sea Star said he saw "a huge, white thing streak across the sky''.
He added: "It left a long smoke trail behind it, like a jet-plane trail but only much bigge...
DATE: Jan 04, 2000
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By Tim Greenfield Tourism-orientated businesses have reacted positively to a rallying call to join a charge in the American West.
Retailers and activity outfitters have signalled their intention to support tourism roadshows forging new ground in the...
DATE: Jan 04, 2000
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successful, with thousands of people turning out in Dockyard, St. George's and Hamilton to bid farewell to 1999 and to welcome in 2000.
The Salute to the Stars concert, in Hamilton on New Year's night, was the perfect ending of one era and the beginn...
DATE: Jan 04, 2000
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The Millennium bug failed to bite in Bermuda as business and Government rolled into the new century with virtually no computer problems.
Years of hard work by the major utilities, banks, businesses and Government departments paid off as the transitio...
DATE: Jan 03, 2000
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The Royal Gazette reporter Lisa York-Cox asked people on the streets of Hamilton which 20th century decade they thought outdid all the rest.
It seemed a simple enough question: What was your favourite decade? But this assignment quickly became an en...
DATE: Jan 03, 2000
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