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Bermuda will persuade international bodies that the Island is not a `tax haven' with an `uncompetitive tax regime' that supports the existence of financial crime.
Remarks by Premier Pamela Gordon at the opening of a recent international conference we...
DATE: Oct 22, 1998
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David Fox, Business Editor
Crooks had a busy summer this year with the number of criminal acts rising in the third quarter of the year according to the latest statistics.
And muggings and handbag snatches are becoming increasingly popular amongst criminals.
Figures released ye...
DATE: Oct 22, 1998
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Gareth Finighan
The Royal Gazette can reveal.
For Home Affairs and Public Safety Minister Maxwell Burgess has given the green light to an Island version of the Airborne Initiative, based in Scotland and designed to give offenders an alternative to jail.
And insuranc...
DATE: Oct 22, 1998
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The defence team in the Supreme Court fraud trial of a former UBP Senator Llewellyn Peniston won points yesterday when the jury was instructed to find him not guilty on two counts of theft.
Peniston has been charged with three counts of perjury, thre...
DATE: Oct 21, 1998
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terrorising nearby residents.
"They have taken over the alley...now they are spilling out of the alley and into the yard,'' Sharonlynn Wilson told The Royal Gazette .
Mrs. Wilson's father and sister live near the group's hangout.
She said she was com...
DATE: Oct 21, 1998
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same period in 1997.
A total of 86 drivers were arrested on suspicion of impaired driving between July and September, with 53 failing a breathalyser test.
The failure rate showed a ten percent increase on the same timeframe during last year.
Of those...
DATE: Oct 21, 1998
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Three Bermudians are benefiting from a novel technical education programme at Alabama's J.F. Drake State Technical College.
The two-part Edu-Tech Programme, under the guidance of International Strategic Management Limited president Michael Stowe, is ...
DATE: Oct 21, 1998
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The resurfacing of the running track at the National Stadium will be complete by January, the National Sports Centre board announced this week.
Originally set to open this fall, the unforeseen delay is due to the clean-up of debris and residue from t...
DATE: Oct 21, 1998
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Patrick Burgess
over an international tax crackdown as scaremongering.
And Ms Smith said: "I was quite surprised that the Premier at this point in time, would try to scare Bermudians into believing only one party could ever govern Bermuda.'' Ms Smith was speaking a...
DATE: Oct 21, 1998
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
14-year-old girls was freed yesterday pending his appeal.
Defence counsel, Richard Hector, told the court yesterday that it would be a "grave misjustice'' if his client spent the full six-month term in jail and then won his appeal after being release...
DATE: Oct 21, 1998
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