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A sports club was shut down by police for 24 hours after a “Wild West” scene that included bottles being thrown at officers.
Bailey’s Bay Cricket Club’s bar was closed temporarily in the wake of a fight involving several men outside the Hamilton Pari...
DATE: Sep 19, 2018
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Fiona McWhirter
A message on a Hamilton wall where an artist’s mural of Gombeys was removed should be used for reflection, the Corporation of Hamilton said yesterday.
A spokeswoman said the city hoped the words will encourage “frayed emotions to heal” after controve...
DATE: Sep 18, 2018
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Island residents from countries battered by major storms said yesterday they continued to monitor reports from their homelands on the damage.
Typhoon Mangkhut has claimed more than 60 lives in the northern Philippines and Hurricane Florence was blame...
DATE: Sep 18, 2018
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A man was stabbed outside a sports bar on Sunday night, police said yesterday.
A spokesman added the 45-year-old was attacked by a stranger near Woody’s bar and restaurant in Sandys.
He said the victim, who was from the parish, was “confronted and in...
DATE: Sep 18, 2018
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Crime
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Fiona McWhirter
A series of “fruitful” meetings were held in Washington, DC between the Premier, his deputy and members of the United States Congress.
David Burt and Walter Roban returned to Bermuda yesterday after the talks when they discussed “significant matters”...
DATE: Sep 18, 2018
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Kind-hearted Bermudians were yesterday thanked for their support after a fundraising walk to help poverty-stricken families around the world.
Answering the Cry of the Poor International Bermuda was collecting for its international shelter and child s...
DATE: Sep 17, 2018
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Fiona McWhirter
Hundreds of people joined forces in a massive clean-up operation of the island’s coasts over the weekend.
Ten Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers were among the teams that took time to tackle the waste blighting the country’s shorelines. In a blitz on Sa...
DATE: Sep 17, 2018
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Fiona McWhirter
An artist told yesterday how she was “livid” as her project to celebrate Gombeys with a mural in Hamilton fell apart.
April Branco was close to completing her work on a wall by the City Hall car park when it was painted over.
The Corporation of Hami...
DATE: Sep 17, 2018
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Fiona McWhirter
A snowball stand owner called yesterday for abandoned cars to be shifted from land beside a play park so he can regenerate the area for local people.
Alfred Butterfield said he wanted to make the area next to the Pembroke playground safe for children...
DATE: Sep 15, 2018
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Fiona McWhirter
A teenager was given a second chance to turn his life around yesterday after he admitted a $7,400 burglary.
Elyon Adonai’s 15-month prison sentence was suspended for two years and magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo told him it was an opportunity to keep out ...
DATE: Sep 14, 2018
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter