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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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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
Lieutenant-Colonel David Gibbons was the Commanding Officer of the Bermuda Regiment at the time of the 9/11 terror attacks.
Colonel Gibbons, now the Honorary Colonel of the Royal Bermuda Regiment, said that the island’s soldiers and other emergency ...
DATE: Sep 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
City Hall in Hamilton will be closed to the public for the rest of the day after a power outage.
The power went out at around 2.30pm.
A Corporation of Hamilton spokeswoman said it was hoped that power would be restored by the end of the day.
She adde...
DATE: Sep 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The police criminal records office has reopened to the public.
But anyone who needs a criminal record check is asked to make their application online if possible.
Application forms can be found on the BPS website here.
Applications should include al...
DATE: Sep 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Two historical societies have received Government grants to fund education programmes.
The St George’s Historical Society was presented with a $5,000 cheque while the Bermuda Historical Society received $6,000.
A Government spokeswoman said: “Each ye...
DATE: Aug 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A man who Police said had been missing for two days has been found.
Terrence Manger was last seen about noon on Monday near the Church Street entrance to the Washington Mall and was last heard from about 6.30pm the same day
A police spokesman said M...
DATE: Aug 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan