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passengers another tax to pay.
The Miscellaneous Taxes Amendment Act allows Government to charge a tax per cabin for each night a ship is in port in Bermuda.
Cruise ship operators will pay $8 per cabin per night if the ship visits Bermuda between Apr...
DATE: Mar 03, 1998
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An elderly Canadian visitor has applauded hotel and hospital staff after they saved her life.
Elra Schoen, 72, was visiting the Island with her husband Tony for the first time when she collapsed at the White Sands Hotel in Paget last week.
Hotel staf...
DATE: Mar 03, 1998
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Gareth Finighan
At this new practice, there is no shortage of work -- especially when one practitioner insists he will continue to make house calls.
No, it's not a medical practice. It's the Island's newest law firm -- but with two familiar Bermudian faces.
Smith & ...
DATE: Mar 02, 1998
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50-year-old Pembroke man in connection with a theft from a Hamilton store early on Wednesday morning.
Officers on Woodbourne Avenue, Pembroke at around 4 a.m. searched the man who they saw carrying a large duffel bag.
During a search of the bag, the ...
DATE: Mar 02, 1998
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permission to build a telecommunications facility on the roof of a hotel.
BDC, which intends to compete with the Bermuda Telephone Company in the local telephone market, has submitted several similar applications to the Planning Department in its bid...
DATE: Mar 02, 1998
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Bermuda's bid to become an air and sea mini-power was yesterday backed by Shadow Home Affairs Minister Alex Scott.
And Mr. Scott -- laid up on doctor's orders with a bad back for Friday's Budget debate on Home Affairs -- said the UK could provide the...
DATE: Mar 02, 1998
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
in their fight with Government.
The People's Coalition for Affordable Housing -- protesting against evictions and higher rents -- want Government to develop a human rights policy to stop landlords refusing to take in families.
They are also calling f...
DATE: Mar 02, 1998
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started a new chambers.
Lord, Simmons and Warner, on Church Street, Hamilton, closed for business last week so the new firm can take on its clients from today.
Partners Elizabeth Christopher, Archie Warner and Victoria Pearman will head the new compa...
DATE: Mar 02, 1998
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highly publicised crashes of Police vehicles in recent months. Mr. Scott is absolutely correct to be concerned. Indeed his concerns must reflect those of the public. High speeds by the Police are dangerous and we think they are too often unnecessary....
DATE: Mar 02, 1998
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Germel Williams, 26, of Union Street, Pembroke pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court on Friday to escaping from lawful custody on February 9.
Prosecutor Sgt. Phil Taylor told the court that at 12.20 p.m. uniformed officers escorted Williams from the c...
DATE: Mar 02, 1998
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