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Fifteen people have been deported for immigration breaches since the start of 2020, it was revealed yesterday.
The immigration department also investigated 431 marriages to check that people had not tied the knot with a non-Bermudian partner to allow...
DATE: Oct 08, 2021
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General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A street that was the scene of a serious road accident has been closed off by the City of Hamilton.
Laffan Street was shut after a 43-year-old woman on a motorbike suffered serious head injuries after she drove over a newly-installed speed bump and l...
DATE: Oct 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A police officer who faced prosecution after she posted a cartoon on social media before last year’s Black Lives Matter march has quit her job.
Barbi Bishop’s lawyer, Victoria Greening, confirmed the resignation yesterday.
Ms Greening said: ““I can ...
DATE: Oct 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Triathlete Flora Duffy was hailed by MPs as a true champion who provided light in the darkness caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
David Burt, the Premier, said that every cloud had a silver lining during a debate yesterday on a proclamation by the Gove...
DATE: Sep 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Insurance company Catalina Holdings has donated 30 filled school backpacks to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bermuda to support students in need.
Tina Rego, chairwoman of the company’s environmental, social and governance committee, said: “During a peri...
DATE: Sep 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
It’s hard to imagine what life was like 100 years ago. Back in the 1920s, Bermuda really was a different world.
There were no cars or television sets, no telephones, no freshly imported good flying in from foreign shores, none of today’s modern luxu...
DATE: Sep 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Police said this morning that a missing teenager has been found safe and well.
Shavon Hayward, 17, was last seen at the Boaz Island Community Centre, at around 11.30pm yesterday.
At the time she was wearing black pants, a black jacket and carrying a ...
DATE: Sep 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
One of the first orders US president George W Bush gave after an airliner slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre on the morning of September 11 was to shut down American air space.
US Air Force fighter jets were scrambled with orders ...
DATE: Sep 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Brett Jolly, a US citizen, was on a routine flight from Portugal to Newark in New Jersey on September 11, 2001.
But it turned into a flight he would never forget after al-Qaida terror attacks hit his homeland.
Mr Jolly said in a letter to The Royal G...
DATE: Sep 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Two schools yesterday held services to remember former pupils killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York 20 years ago today.
Rhondelle Tankard, at Warwick Academy between 1982 and 1987, and Boyd Gatton, who left Saltus Grammar in 1980, were bot...
DATE: Sep 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan