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Fight witness' duty
March 2, 2009
Dear Sir,
I read with disbelief, Sam Strangeways' article entitled "Bus terminal fight witness is surprised Police have not issued an appeal", in today's Royal Gazette (March 2, 2008).
To quote your reporter's words....
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Fifty-five percent of Bermuda's energy distribution network is underground
Each residential electricity consumer in Bermuda produces around 6.5 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year
Bermuda has nearly 2,300 motor vehicles per square mile
Bermuda is ...
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AM Best has placed the ratings of Bermuda reinsurer IPC Holdings Ltd. under review with negative implications after the company announced its intention to merge with Max Capital.
IPC and its operating subsidiaries have a financial strength rating of ...
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Police need to take "decisive, aggressive and appropriately violent action" to tackle Bermuda's criminals, Public Safety Minister David Burch claimed yesterday.
The Minister, defending a $2.3 million cut in the Policing budget this year, told a press...
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The 14-year manslaughter sentence meted out to Arnold Astwood marks the end of a tragic chapter for the family of victim Ruth Binns.
Less than a year before her death at his hands, she lost her brother Edward (Sleepy) Dill, who was stabbed to death b...
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MPs have approved legislation which will allow Government to increase its overdraft from $15 million to more than $110 million this year.
The Temporary Loans Amendment Act 2009 was passed in the House of Assembly on Monday evening and will enable Gov...
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• The Police budget has been cut from $62.8 million to $60.5 million this year. The amount slashed — $2.3 million — amounts to less than four percent of the 2008/09 Police budget.
• The reduction includes a $941,000 cut in training, which includes $3...
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Bermuda ranks 15th in the world in per capita carbon dioxide production far higher than a slew of industrialised countries.
According to Government's Green Paper on Energy, Bermuda produces an incredible 11 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per pers...
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Shadow Housing Minister Donte Hunt has said Government needs to "drill down more" and give better detail on planned projects in their annual Budget. The Opposition MP told the House of Assembly on Monday that he couldn't see an overall plan for housi...
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LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England could start buying assets from banks with newly created money as early as this week to boost lending in the economy, Treasury chief Alistair Darling said in an interview published yesterday.
The Bank of England revea...
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