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A hardware store has struck a deal to renovate a Pembroke sports club, it was revealed yesterday.
Gorham’s, on St John’s Road, will improve the pitch at Western Stars Sports Club, better known as the home of football club Dandy Town, and renovate the...
DATE: Oct 31, 2019
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Hundreds of people face losing their homes through repossession by banks, a government backbencher warned last night.
Michael Scott, a lawyer and Sandys North MP, said there should be “an assessment of how many distressed properties exist in our coun...
DATE: Oct 30, 2019
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A single gunshot was reported last night in the area of Spruce Lane in Pembroke, according to police.
Officers responded to the incident, in a residential area near North Shore, at about 9.30pm.
There was no forensic evidence that a gun was discharge...
DATE: Oct 30, 2019
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Co-operative banks and supermarkets will empower Bermudians to challenge the island’s status quo, David Burt said last night.
Speaking at the opening night of the Progressive Labour Party’s delegates conference, the Premier said entrepreneurs could s...
DATE: Oct 29, 2019
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The education minister warned tonight that there would have to be “an uncomfortable and necesssary conversation” about the “repurposing and realigning” of the island’s primary school system.
Diallo Rabain said that talks would have to be held alongsi...
DATE: Oct 28, 2019
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Walton Brown’s unswerving commitment to Bermudian independence brought a touch of humour to the sorrow of his loss.
David Burt, the Premier, and former Progressive Labour Party minister and longstanding friend of Mr Brown’s Dale Butler told the congr...
DATE: Oct 19, 2019
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Hundreds of mourners packed the Anglican Cathedral to bid farewell yesterday to MP and former government minister Walton Brown.
The standing room-only congregation at the Hamilton church heard that Mr Brown combined a fierce commitment to social just...
DATE: Oct 19, 2019
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A grieving woman said yesterday that she still had not been given answers about her father’s death in a road crash more than a year ago.
Ciara Martin’s father, Marco Bowen, died after his motorcycle was in collision with a water truck in rush hour tr...
DATE: Oct 18, 2019
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A charity set up to feed the hungry yesterday thanked the public for its support after last month’s Hurricane Humberto knocked out power and ruined its stocks of frozen food.
The Eliza DoLittle Society was forced to shut down on a temporary basis aft...
DATE: Oct 18, 2019
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A former resident of under-threat historic Dockyard houses pleaded for their preservation yesterday.
Roger Bendall, who now lives more than 10,000 miles away in Sydney, Australia, said the crumbling Victorian-era terraced homes in Albert Row should b...
DATE: Oct 17, 2019
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