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kiss of death, income tax. Bermuda's rather old fashioned tax system based on import duties and such things as occupancy taxes and licensing fees served the Country well when it was a much less complicated place than it is today.
Today, there are two...
DATE: Aug 18, 1997
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A local woman has claimed that she was exploited by Customs officers after being subjected to a full body search and medical X-ray.
And the 33-year-old woman, who wished to remain anonymous, told The Royal Gazette she was seeking legal action.
She re...
DATE: Aug 18, 1997
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former girlfriend turned violent.
Shawn Albouy, 27, of Clarendon Road, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court last week to assaulting Nadia Dublin.
Police prosecutor Sgt. Phil Taylor said Albouy was $1,200 in debt to Miss Dublin for selling her motorbi...
DATE: Aug 18, 1997
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A man who once served time in prison and took it upon himself to rehabilitate his life has now started a printing service.
John D. Seaman, 33, said ever since getting out of prison nine years ago he has made strides to improve his life.
Mr. Seaman ha...
DATE: Aug 18, 1997
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died in a horror weekend road accident.
Nursing aide Sue Mills -- a mother-of-two -- and orderly David Alves were both killed after the bike they were travelling on was involved in a head-on crash with a car on a sharp left-hand bend in Somerset Road...
DATE: Aug 18, 1997
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The owner of a top Hamilton liquor store yesterday vowed it would be business as usual today after a weekend blaze threatened his premises.
William de V. Frith, owner of Front Street's Frith's Liquors and Mayor of Hamilton, was speaking after a Satur...
DATE: Aug 18, 1997
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services counsellor has raised a few eyebrows.
In addition to the usual qualifications expected for such a post, the ad states that preference will be given to applicants with training in adolescent counselling.
But when The Royal Gazette contacted A...
DATE: Aug 18, 1997
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Thursday.
The woman told Police she was walking along Pitt's Bay Road in Pembroke with her husband around 2.15 p.m. when a youth on a motorcycle rode up from behind and grabbed her shoulder bag.
The offender continued along Pitt's Bay Road and turned...
DATE: Aug 16, 1997
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of Operation Cleansweep.
A Police spokeswoman reported that there were 346 drug-related seizures during the first six months of the year compared to 304 over the same period of time in 1996.
Ports of entry accounted for 95 of these while the other 25...
DATE: Aug 16, 1997
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that they were trying to alleviate problems in the prison service.
And Mr. Bascome said he wanted an explanation for Government's "lack of action in initiating recommendations'' made in British Judge Stephen Tumim's review of the Island's judicial sy...
DATE: Aug 16, 1997
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