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Airport officials are reminding the public not to fly kites or launch Chinese lanterns in certain areas over the Easter holiday.
A spokesman for the Department of Airport Operations confirmed that the traditional Easter pastime is banned around the L...
DATE: Apr 14, 2014
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Engineers are now working hard to get an expanded network of CCTV cameras up and running.
Staff from security company BAS-Serco have been tasked with installing around 150 cameras across the Island as quickly as possible — providing almost double the...
DATE: Apr 12, 2014
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News that Bermuda’s beaches could be contaminated by hazardous levels of sewage pollution is spreading across the US.
The Washington Post newspaper, which has 17 million readers, has now picked up the story after The Royal Gazette broke the news thre...
DATE: Apr 12, 2014
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Veteran hotelier, tourism advocate and community activist W.A. ‘Toppy’ Cowen has died at the age of 78.
Mr Cowen, who managed the Pink Beach Club for 20 years, died on Wednesday in Kelowna, British Columbia, where he lived for the last five years of ...
DATE: Apr 12, 2014
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Bureaucratic red tape has resulted in increased frustration for families wishing to adopt children.
The blunder occurred after changes to the adoption laws came into effect at the start of last November.
But Government forms that have to be completed...
DATE: Apr 10, 2014
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Hamilton Mayor Graeme Outerbridge has acknowledged that the Corporation of Hamilton may have acted prematurely when it paid out $50,000 to a group planning to hold a convention on the Island.
Mr Outerbridge yesterday agreed that fresh questions neede...
DATE: Apr 10, 2014
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A Bermudian fisherman has featured in a top fishing magazine after catching a monster 1,000lb tuna.
In an article in the US-based National Fisherman magazine headlined ‘Big fish, small island’, veteran angler David Soares recounted how he reeled in ...
DATE: Apr 10, 2014
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St George’s dog owners are being urged to pick up after their pets or face heavy penalties.
Town officials are clamping down on owners who fail to clean up after their animals have defecated in a number of public areas, including Ordnance Island and ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2014
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Government’s decision to block a documentary film crew from entering the Island had made headlines around the world.
The team from Canada wanted to come to Bermuda to make a film on the 1996 rape and murder of Ontario teenager Rebecca Middleton.
But ...
DATE: Apr 08, 2014
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The Bermuda Post Office is now offering the latest messaging security and electronic document tools as part of its RPost, registered e-mail service.
The technology was first introduced in 2010 when the BPO formed a partnership with RPost, the invento...
DATE: Apr 08, 2014
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