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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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Devonshire Cougars are mourning the death of footballer, Jeremy DeShields, who died earlier this afternoon from a suspected heart attack.
Details of the late footballer’s passing remain sketchy but it is understood he died at his workplace after comp...
DATE: Jun 29, 2009
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Paul Hubbard’s Bermuda Oyster has withdrawn from this year’s Marion to Bermuda Race Cruising Yacht Race, The Royal Gazette can confirm.
The 65-year-old soon-to-be retired accountant notified race officials that he will not make the 645-nautical mile ...
DATE: Jun 20, 2009
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Even at age 80, Gloria Ray enjoys life in the fast lane.
And she probably wouldn't have it any other way.
The retired Warwick resident is co-coordinator of a 40-strong women's bowling contingent due to travel to Reno, Nevada next week to compete in t...
DATE: May 23, 2009
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