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A public meeting is being held tonight seek public input into how a historic burial site can be protected from development.
And pressure group Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda is asking descendants of ancestors buried at the Tucker’s Town graveya...
DATE: Apr 09, 2013
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Government officials were on hand at LF Wade International Airport yesterday afternoon to welcome the arrival of Delta Air Lines’ inaugural flight from New York’s LaGuardia Airport.
The Boeing 737 jet touched down on schedule at 2.30pm and, in true a...
DATE: Apr 09, 2013
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Tourism
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Gareth Finighan
The Department of Health is highlighting a free blood pressure clinic as part of this week’s Public Health Week.
This year’s theme is hypertension, or high blood pressure, and is being promoted with the slogan: “Do you know your blood pressure number...
DATE: Apr 09, 2013
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Health
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Gareth Finighan
A record-breaking drop in the number of available jobs in the last year has cast doubt on Bermuda’s ability to emerge quickly from four years of recession.
And the Bermuda Employers’ Council has suggested that the latest “dismal” statistics illustrat...
DATE: Apr 08, 2013
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Gareth Finighan
A trainee doctor could have her medical studies curtailed because of a shortfall in tuition funding of just $4,265.
And Bermudians are now being urged to help Aisha Bassett in her quest to become a top cancer specialist by donating to her college fun...
DATE: Apr 08, 2013
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Television commercials promoting Bermuda as a top tourism destination in the US are also being aired on local television this month.
The So Much More advertising campaign, which targets the North America market, features a series of 15-second and 30-...
DATE: Apr 06, 2013
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A sailor had to be rescued after his boat began to sink in heavy swells off the north shore yesterday.
Marine police were called out just after 2pm after the solo mariner got into distress about 200 metres from the shore off Grace Church, Pembroke.
A...
DATE: Apr 06, 2013
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The Island’s employment market shrunk by more than five percent with a net loss of almost 2,000 jobs last year — the biggest drop in jobs in a single year since figures were first collated 35 years ago.
And the 2012 Employment Survey also highlights ...
DATE: Apr 06, 2013
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Former Bermuda Housing Corporation manager and Regiment Major Glenn Brangman has had his sentence for sexual assault reduced on appeal.
The 61-year-old was facing a three-and-a-half year jail term after being found guilty of four counts of sexual ass...
DATE: Apr 05, 2013
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A Southampton Rangers football player has been jailed for 15 years for his role as “kingpin” in a plot to bring almost $500,000 worth of cocaine into Bermuda.
Everett Bean, 31, masterminded the plan to smuggle in the shipment from the Caribbean in Ja...
DATE: Apr 05, 2013
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
