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A former Bermuda pastor, Silvester Beaman, has been elected and consecrated a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
David Burt, the Premier, congratulated Bishop Beaman, who formerly served at St Paul AME Church in Hamilton, and Bethel AM...
DATE: Jul 13, 2021
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Jonathan Bell
The Transformational Living Centre, a shelter for homeless women and their children soon to open on Parsons Road in Pembroke, got brightened last month by big-hearted volunteers from a local insurer.
Sheelagh Cooper, the chairwoman of Habitat for Hum...
DATE: Jul 08, 2021
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Jonathan Bell
Tenants at Southside, St David’s lost water today after a break in the main water line, the Bermuda Land Development Company advised.
Andrew Dias, the chief executive of the BLDC, said ageing galvanised piping left over from the US Base at Southside ...
DATE: Jul 01, 2021
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Jonathan Bell
A Hamilton city block closed to traffic by a broken sewerage pipe is just a day from reopening – but held up until the arrival of spare parts.
The stretch of Dundonald Street from Bull’s Head car park to Washington Street is shut off while repair cre...
DATE: Jul 01, 2021
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Jonathan Bell
A piece of land owned by the Government at the centre of a land dispute is the scene of an unauthorised developed on land designated as a national park, an area resident has claimed.
The area in Spanish Point, Pembroke, near the Mill Creek inlet, was...
DATE: Jun 22, 2021
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Jonathan Bell
Controversy Lane in Pembroke lived up to its name this week when a row broke out after a property boundary appeared to be moved by the Government.
Mike Corea, who lives next door to an area designated as parkland on the Department of Planning website...
DATE: Jun 16, 2021
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Jonathan Bell
A demolition order has been issued for a historic Victorian home in North Hamilton where the founders of the Berkeley Institute school first met more than 140 years ago.
The news this week prompted historians and residents to question why Wantley Hou...
DATE: Jun 10, 2021
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General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s biggest demonstration in recent times was held a year ago, just 13 days after the police killing of unarmed Black man George Floyd in the US was captured on a mobile phone.
A jury found Derek Chauvin, a White policeman who knelt on Mr Floyd...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Friends and family of a teenage girl killed in a crash last week gathered near the scene of the incident and wore pink as a tribute at the weekend.
A procession of cars decked with pink ribbons drove past the scene where Amber Bridges, who was 16, di...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Veteran activist Glenn Fubler said he was unable to finish watching the video of the murder of George Floyd.
Mr Fubler, a civil and human rights campaigner for most of his 71 years, said: “It was so obviously inhuman – and captured by a 17-year-old g...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell