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You can?t win at Customs
December 23, 2004
Dear Sir,
With H.M. Customs and duty regulations currently enjoying high media profile, I am reminded of a particularly unpleasant and lengthy search: Last year, along with detailed goods for which I had rec...
DATE: Dec 24, 2004
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Keeping the Police safe
December 22, 2004
Dear Sir,
I am grateful for the opportunity to respond to the letter entitled ?Uniform and Fashion? (Royal Gazette, December 21) written by ?Skink and the Lobster Party?.
It is abundantly clear that the write...
DATE: Dec 23, 2004
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As in past years there was an enthusiastic response from the Island's school aged students to Christmas Story competition this year. A whopping 103 students entered and 51 adults.
Judges of the contest said that deciding on winners was a particularly...
DATE: Dec 23, 2004
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Pathetic public greeting
November 26, 2004
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“Good-morning-how-are-you?” “How-are-you-today!” They pass with a quick smile, not slackening pace or waiting for a reply. Flung over the shoulder, replies are lost in the snarl of traffic, “Have-g...
DATE: Nov 30, 2004
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MASTERWORKS' final solo exhibit opens tonight at its Front Street gallery ? for artist Jackie Stevenson, preparing to showcase her first collection of works, the event will be decidedly bitter-sweet.
"It's my first art show, but it's also the end of ...
DATE: Nov 19, 2004
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A new reference book on Bermuda?s natural history hit bookshelves on Thursday evening.
?The Natural History of Bermuda? was written by Dr. Thomas Thomas who has worked with both the Bermuda Biological Station for Research and the Bermuda Zoological S...
DATE: Aug 28, 2004
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May 27, 2005
Dear Sir,
I see by today's Royal Gazette that 100 homes are to be built and not like normal Bermudian homes.
Well, if they are the US style homes that are panels of wood nailed together, then when the next high winds or hurricanes hit yo...
DATE: Jun 26, 2004
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Inmates at the Prison Farm will be given the tools to learn about farming and gardening under a new scheme which received funding from the Environment Ministry this week.
The Grow Food First programme was one of seven groups that received grants tota...
DATE: Dec 19, 2003
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The Pesticides Focus Group was one of seven successful applicants which sought funding under the Ministry's Environmental Grant Scheme ? a programme "designed specifically to support and encourage all branches of the community to conserve, preserve, ...
DATE: Dec 19, 2003
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Members of the Senate yesterday approved a bill which gives legal basis to the creation of a Protected Species list.
?The (Protected Species Act 2003) is designed to afford protection to Bermuda?s endangered species of plants and wildlife, to protect...
DATE: Nov 27, 2003
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