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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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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Four Bermudian students have been unveiled as this year’s winners of the Nicholl Scholarships, worth $25,000 annually.
The group are joining courses from journalism to palaeontology, political science and nursing.
The Nicholl Scholarships, named afte...
DATE: Aug 31, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A cruise ship custom-built by Celebrity Cruises to call on Bermuda has come to the end of its career.
The former MV Horizon, which has spent the past two years out of service, headed this month to a scrapyard in Turkey, according to Cruise Industry N...
DATE: Aug 31, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A string of public school students aged 5 to 16 have been sponsored by the Government to join others in the Dream Spark summer camp this month.
The international programme is offered by the Miami-based entrepreneur Brandon Okpalobi, who launched his ...
DATE: Aug 30, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Swing Bridge to St George’s is clear for traffic after drivers were warned off the crossing earlier today, or to expect delays, because of downed wires.
A police spokesman said it was unclear whether any of the fallen wires were live, and that th...
DATE: Aug 30, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Stalled financing for an international arbitration centre in Hamilton should have been reckoned with before the plans to build the facility got announced two years ago, the Opposition has charged.
Craig Cannonier, the Shadow Minister of Works and Eng...
DATE: Aug 30, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An international arbitration centre planned for Hamilton is likely to have to share its premises with other offices so that construction costs can be repaid.
The facility for settling disputes, to be named after the former Progressive Labour Party MP...
DATE: Aug 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Two Bermuda MPs and the island’s Clerk to the Legislature had a place at the table for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference that wrapped up today in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The delegation, with government MP Jamahl Simmons, Opposition MP Susan Jac...
DATE: Aug 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Government’s emergency spending in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic is under the microscope of the bipartisan Public Accounts Committee.
Cole Simons, the Leader of the Opposition and chairman of the PAC, said the group continued to examine healt...
DATE: Aug 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s newest hotel is now slated to open on June 1 instead of March next year, but work is going like ‘gangbusters’
DATE: Aug 27, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell