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Three Government Ministers last night revealed that they may be unable to fulfil Finance Minister Eugene Cox's directive to cut their proposed budgets by five percent.
Health Minister Nelson Bascome, Education Minister Milton Scott and Home Affairs M...
DATE: Jan 05, 2000
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Former teacher Madeline Kent-Smith died as she slept in Fort Lauderdale, early yesterday.
Mrs. Kent-Smith, who was the wife of former VSB newscaster Gary Kent-Smith, had been ill for just over three years and was just a few weeks short of he...
DATE: Jan 04, 2000
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Although Bermuda has come through the Y2K threat almost completely unscathed, today will be a crucial test to see if the Island's computers are functioning properly under normal working conditions.
Y2K experts are confident, however, that based on th...
DATE: Jan 04, 2000
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The Millennium bug failed to bite in Bermuda as business and Government rolled into the new century with virtually no computer problems.
Years of hard work by the major utilities, banks, businesses and Government departments paid off as the transitio...
DATE: Jan 03, 2000
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For a few minutes at midnight, historic St. George was thrown onto the world's centre stage as live television pictures of the Millennium celebrations were beamed around the globe.
After the countdown, Premier Jennifer Smith proclaimed: "New Year's g...
DATE: Jan 03, 2000
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of Bermuda, that the Island has much to be proud of.
The remarkable tale of survival and success is told in The Royal Gazette's special section on the Millennium and in many ways, it is the tales of individual success and innovation against adversity...
DATE: Dec 31, 1999
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people, the dangers of oligarchical government is fully realised. `Democracy' is a mockery as far as Bermuda is concerned.'' -- E.F. Gordon, Petition to the Secretary of State, 1945.
The opening salvo in the battle for universal franchise was deliver...
DATE: Dec 31, 1999
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of an elderly woman who was beaten by machete-wielding robbers in her own home.
Victim Mary Pickles, 78, said our seemingly sedate Island was becoming violent -- a fact not lost on the Canadian authors of the Boycott Bermuda website who were angry ab...
DATE: Dec 31, 1999
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That the rapid and general spread of knowledge in our days has rendered necessary an education as thorough and extended as possible. -- Berkeley Educational Society, 1881 The class of 1900 was ill equipped to compete in the exciting and demanding ne...
DATE: Dec 31, 1999
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At the end of the 20th Century, we hold the rightness of universal franchise to be self evident. Yet at the beginning of the century, nations considered the majority of their citizens unfit to vote: all women and those men who did not own land.
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DATE: Dec 31, 1999
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