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Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons has demanded that Government give a “full explanation” for a multi-million dollar lease agreement it signed with Pembroke Hamilton Club.
Government agreed to lease a revamped PHC sports complex for more than $1...
DATE: May 18, 2012
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Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU) and Pembroke Hamilton Club (PHC) president Chris Furbert has denied claims the Union has called in the $1.2 million it loaned to the iconic sports club.
In 2001 PHC borrowed $1,202,778 from the BIU to cover costs for th...
DATE: May 16, 2012
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Lionfish that have invaded Bermuda's offshore waters are perfectly edible, local experts have claimed.
A recent US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) study in the Caribbean has revealed a naturally occurring toxin in the flesh of the species that can...
DATE: Nov 28, 2011
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The row between Bermuda Broadcasting Company (BBC) and Bermuda Football Association (BFA) over the news blackout of last week’s FIFA World Cup qualifier at the National Sports Centre (NSC) lingers on.
Relations between both parties soured after the B...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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The threat of lionfish decimating local fish stocks is far worse than many Bermudians realise.
Already the species has had an adverse effect on juvenile fish stocks in the Caribbean. And, unless measures to prevent the proliferation of lionfish in lo...
DATE: Nov 07, 2011
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The St David’s community is today mourning the death of well-known cricketer Landro Minors.
Mr Minors, 27, became this year’s seventh road fatality after he succumbed to injuries he sustained in a single vehicle accident in Smith’s yesterday.
The for...
DATE: Nov 02, 2011
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Bermuda has been thrust into the international limelight by one of the most unlikely sources Jack and Donna Castle’s Rottweiler Tantunka vom Eschenhagen.
The Castles’ champion dog has featured on the cover of ‘Total Rottweiler Magazine’ against the b...
DATE: Nov 01, 2011
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Roy Allan Burch posted the second fastest time by a Bermudian swimmer at the Pan Am Games in Guadalajara, Mexico today.
Burch came to within seven hundredths of a second of his own national record (22.69) en route to qualifying for tonight’s men’s 50...
DATE: Oct 20, 2011
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Teenaged angler Stefan Olsen will have plenty to tell his fellow classmates when he returns to school in Connecticut next semester.
The 17-year old Oxford Academy student landed a 865 pound blue marlin and along with his teammates aboard Captain Jame...
DATE: Jul 07, 2009
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Twins were tragically torn apart yesterday after well-respected Devonshire Cougars footballer Jeremy DeShields suffered a suspected heart attack and was later pronounced dead at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
The Works and Engineering employee wa...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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