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Former Premier Sir John Swan has unveiled plans to build what is thought to be the first major residential complex in the centre of Hamilton for years. And last night Sir John told The Royal Gazette he believed the proposal for 76 one-bedroom apartme...
DATE: Dec 08, 1999
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the renaming of Cup Match day to mark the emancipation of slaves in the then-British Empire.
The proposal, to dub Cup Match Day Emancipation Day in the Public Holidays Amendment Act, caused controversy when it passed the House of Assembly -- and hour...
DATE: Dec 08, 1999
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had been charged with the attempted murder of Pembroke school teacher Dafyde Herman Smith.
Crown counsel Brian Calhoun claimed lawyer Julian Hall, representing accused man David Dill, was "shooting the messenger'' for his cross-examinations of invest...
DATE: Dec 08, 1999
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abolish the death penalty, the people of Bermuda have still had little say -- and even less information about the Government's position -- on the linked issue of closer ties with the UK.
Abolishing the death penalty and judicial corporal punishment w...
DATE: Dec 08, 1999
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while impaired.
Wyman Minks, 35, of Happy Valley Road, pleaded guilty before Senior Magistrate Will Francis yesterday to riding his motorcycle on Front Street on September 26 last year with almost four times the legal limit.
Crown counsel Larry Musse...
DATE: Dec 08, 1999
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The Bermuda Fire case adjourned last week when a $35 million settlement was announced.
Now BF&M's shareholders will give their verdict on the settlement's terms -- at a special general meeting to convene next Tuesday, December 14.
Both the preference...
DATE: Dec 07, 1999
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Miami to face court proceedings for violating a sentence.
Paediatrician George Miller, who was sentenced to two years community service in Florida for sexual charges relating to a 15-year-old girl, has been on $10,000 bail in Bermuda since October wh...
DATE: Dec 07, 1999
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closure of the former Government records site in St. George's.
Works and Engineering Minister Alex Scott yesterday, at the opening of the new site at the former Co-Op supermarket on Union Street in Pembroke, explained what had led to the switch.
He s...
DATE: Dec 07, 1999
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Bermuda's Parliament should have a special period set aside for a UK-style question time, Opposition leader Pamela Gordon said yesterday.
Ms Gordon was speaking after the Opposition claimed the ruling Progressive Labour Party had last Friday filled u...
DATE: Dec 07, 1999
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Bermuda's political parties will this week decide whether a vote on the abolition of hanging and flogging will be a vote of conscience or the if the Whip will be imposed.
Development and Opportunity Minister Terry Lister -- who tabled the bill in the...
DATE: Dec 07, 1999
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
