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A ripple effect from the defection of UBP MP Grace Bell to the UBP earlier this year is still causing controversy in the crucial constituency of St.
George's South.
But -- not surprisingly -- both the UBP team of Rick Spurling and Derrick Carlington ...
DATE: Oct 31, 1998
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
trumpeted by Election candidates.
And plans for the elderly, children and a greater role for the churches were underlined by a mini-slate of polling day hopefuls.
Warwick West candidate and Minister of Community and Cultural Affairs Yvette Swan said ...
DATE: Oct 31, 1998
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vote in next month's General Election -- after the Opposition PLP arranged a charter flight to bring the students back home.
But one Progressive Labour Party candidate insisted the flight waas not set up to boost the ranks of Opposition supporters bu...
DATE: Oct 30, 1998
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at comments made during a Wednesday afternoon PLP press conference.
Tourism Minister David Dodwell said his opposite number, Shadow Tourism Minister David Allen's referral to low air arrivals as an indication of how poorly tourism was doing was a sig...
DATE: Oct 30, 1998
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A group of mystery entrepreneurs plan to convert one of the Island's oldest hotels into an upmarket residential apartment block catering...
DATE: Oct 30, 1998
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to up to six months in prison for committing perjury in a bankruptcy hearing.
But Peniston is free on $1,000 bail pending an appeal of the three convictions for perjury and one count of concealing property.
Peniston, 53, cried when his lawyer Julian ...
DATE: Oct 30, 1998
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By Gareth Finighan The PLP promises to reduce class sizes, introduce a student assessment programme, hire more male teachers and set new academic standards in a bid to enable public schools to "offer the premier educational experience''.
Launching t...
DATE: Oct 30, 1998
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Bermuda shapes and looks after its environment of the future.
Giving an independent view on the issues facing the Island, the National Trust say the new Minister of the Environment -- or Natural Resources as they suggest it should be called -- has a ...
DATE: Oct 30, 1998
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yacht in distress in the Atlantic.
The three had radioed the Island requesting assistance as they wanted to abandon their sailing yacht, which had been battered by 20 foot seas and 35 knot winds.
Heavy seas had rolled the US-registered Victory over a...
DATE: Oct 30, 1998
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"bullying tactics'' after a camera crew turned up at a UBP press conference -- and refused to leave.
The press conference -- called on the long-running row over TV debates between Premier Pamela Gordon and PLP leader Jennifer Smith -- was delayed for...
DATE: Oct 30, 1998
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