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in the year to November 12 had increased over the same period last year. They have decreased -- by 6.9 percent for air arrivals, 2.3 percent for sea arrivals and 5.5 percent for total arrivals.
Bermuda saw nearly 1,800 more visitor arrivals last week...
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ended this week.
Crown Counsel Mr. Khamisi Tokunbo finished the Crown case and the team for the defence, Mr. Frank Phipps QC, from Jamaica, and Mr. Edward Bailey, concluded their case for the appellant.
The three-judge Court of Appeal reserved judgem...
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Twenty-five years after Bermuda introduced universal adult suffrage and desegregated its schools and businesses, race remains a central element of Bermuda life.
Throughout the 1980s, Bermuda's leaders were able to boast that Bermuda had solved -- or ...
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increase the Airport's public facilities are overdue. Many travellers have found it hard to believe that Bermuda's airport had no "duty free'' area.
This shows that sometimes it takes a crisis like the return of the Bases to get things moving.
Howeve...
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Environmentalists were celebrating last night after plans for a massive housing development on virgin land were thrown out.
Bermuda Properties Ltd wanted to build up to 150 homes on White Crest Hill -- part of Catchment Hill -- as well as nine luxury...
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unanimous not guilty verdicts that were handed down in the Reid Simmons cannabis trial yesterday.
A Supreme Court jury deliberated for exactly two hours and acquitted Simmons of importing $97,755 worth of cannabis into Bermuda on April 14, 1993 and h...
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was sent to prison yesterday for failing to pay up.
John S. DeCosta, of Cambridge Road, Sandys, was ordered by the Wor. Edward King in Magistrates' Court to spend 90 days in prison for failure to pay two women $41,931 in child support.
Mr. King told ...
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In a rare and controversial legal move, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was requested to hand over his notes on a recent drug trial yesterday by a three-man Appeal Court panel who suggested his recording of the hearing was questionable and pos...
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A pioneering scheme to get the Police closer to the community could be axed due to lack of public interest, it was revealed this week.
Parish Constables currently spend time in local Post Offices at set times so members of the public can raise concer...
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor