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and violent crimes and used them to imply that general crime figures are not, as claimed, in decline. The truth is that crime figures are significantly in decline but that, coincidentally, but only coincidentally, Bermuda has had some highly publicis...
DATE: Dec 06, 1996
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the whistle on drugs in sport, Sports Minister Tim Smith claimed yesterday.
And drugs testing for athletes, stiffer penalties as well as rehabilitation programmes and education are all on the cards.
A mission statement on the issue is to be unveiled ...
DATE: Dec 06, 1996
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backing of their UBP branch over the big burger bust-up.
The two MPs hammered out their position on the franchise row at a meeting of their Smith's South branch.
And last night they claimed the branch committee had thrown itself behind them.
"They st...
DATE: Dec 06, 1996
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months after being sentenced to two years in prison.
Vaucrosson is expected to walk through the gates of Westgate on Thursday, December 12. He was sentenced on January 12 this year.
However he will be faced by more legal battles -- including a writ i...
DATE: Dec 06, 1996
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plan for a dairy milking shed and grazing area for ten cows at 21 Vesey Street, Devonshire.
The DAB recently deferred the application until the end of the advertising period.
DATE: Dec 06, 1996
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Tourism may be in a crisis -- but at least one superstar visitor gave the Island top marks for visitor satisfaction.
He said: "Time drifts along here at about the gait I like. There are no excitements and I don't want any -- I think I could live here...
DATE: Dec 06, 1996
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
more than $600,000 early next year.
Health and Social Services Minister Harry Soares announced the plan plus another to boost Child and Family Service staff levels last night.
Mr. Soares said it had come to his department's attention that inflation m...
DATE: Dec 06, 1996
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The number of retailers demanding Government scrap Customs duties in favour of sales tax is growing, said Eldon Trimingham, Bank of Bermuda chairman and president of Trimingham Brothers, yesterday.
"I'm not sure that some people really understand the...
DATE: Dec 06, 1996
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roads are crammed with thousands of vehicles per square mile.
Bermuda Road Safety Council chairman George Morton Jr. passed this message on to Hamilton Lions during their weekly luncheon.
He said there were 49,000 vehicles licensed, including 22,000 ...
DATE: Dec 06, 1996
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men cooking themselves a meal in the kitchen, the Police reported yesterday.
Spokesman Evelyn James Barnett reported that the man was about to lock up the restaurant, in Sandys, when he heard noises in the rear. In the kitchen he found the two would-...
DATE: Dec 06, 1996
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