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An audience with the Queen came as a surprise for Parks superintendent Stephen Furbert during the monarch’s 2009 visit to Bermuda with her husband, Prince Philip.
Their tree planting at Government House, an almost obligatory ritual for a visiting dig...
DATE: Sep 10, 2022
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Jonathan Bell
Seniors’ needs against a backdrop of rising costs in Bermuda took centre stage at an in-person “talk and tea” forum held last Friday.
Eighty participants gathered at St Paul’s Church Hall in Paget — with more such gatherings planned.
Tinée Furbert, M...
DATE: Sep 09, 2022
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Jonathan Bell
Workers installing a solar project at the National Sports Centre got a brief dousing this morning when their drill struck a high-pressure water pipe.
The job is part of an ongoing renewable energy launch at the Devonshire facility.
The drilling is to...
DATE: Sep 07, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Hundreds of homes across Devonshire were in the dark yesterday evening after a widespread outage just after 6pm.
The power company’s website reported 350 customers lost power.
A spokesman for Belco said the power cut was caused by a palm frond becomi...
DATE: Sep 07, 2022
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General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s heroes of the fire service were celebrated at an awards ceremony yesterday with a salute to “the Covid 12” of recruits who persevered through their training in the depths of a pandemic.
Acting Fire Chief Dana Lovell took the stage at Hamilt...
DATE: Sep 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Residents should put their garbage out one day after their normal collection day next week because of Monday’s Labour Day holiday, the Ministry of Public Works has advised.
The City of Hamilton separately issued a holiday timetable.
For residents isl...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A news trove from 1940, stashed inside the walls of a Fairylands home undergoing demolition, yielded an unexpected time capsule for a construction worker and his son.
One man’s trash became another’s treasure as Sanuel Phillips and his son Jeremiah h...
DATE: Aug 31, 2022
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General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A 57-year-old female visitor to Bermuda who drowned while swimming at Horseshoe Bay on Saturday has been named by police as Judy Severe.
She was said to be among several visiting cruise ship passengers who went to the beach in Southampton.
A police s...
DATE: Aug 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Celebrations of Jamaica’s 60 years of independence this weekend will include talks tonight and tomorrow from a renowned speaker on the island’s culture and diaspora.
Dervan Malcolm will speak tonight at the Hamilton restaurant Fish and Tings from...
DATE: Aug 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A permanent memorial has been placed to the St David’s Islanders who lost their homes in a wartime pact between Britain and the US
DATE: Aug 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell