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A row over Hamilton Parish Workman’s Club has broken out after a former president made claims of mismanagement.
However, Nigel Burgess, the club secretary, defended the handling of finances and said the criticism was unfounded.
Alan Smith, president...
DATE: Jan 25, 2019
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Charles Gosling, the Mayor of Hamilton, hit back yesterday after a company that lost out when it loaned millions of dollars for a new hotel in the city said that American firms should avoid doing business in Bermuda.
Mexico Infrastructure Finance wro...
DATE: Jan 25, 2019
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A Bermudian film-maker and a team of friends are training for a gruelling one-day ocean-to-ocean cycle across the Isthmus of Panama next month to help the fight against modern slavery.
Kim Carter said: “It’s like riding two dozen Billy Goat Hills, on...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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A trailblazing Bermudian engineer for the Xerox Corporation, who pushed for the hiring of other black professionals, has died.
Lloyd Bean, an 80-year-old father of four, died on January 8 at home in Brighton, New York.
Mr Bean moved to the United Sta...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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Influenza cases have jumped, the chief of staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board has confirmed.
Michael Richmond, the Chief of Staff and acting chief executive at the BHB, said that the speed and virulence was a concern.
He added: “This has not been ...
DATE: Jan 22, 2019
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Women’s reproductive rights and the need to combat a culture of “shaming” were championed yesterday at an International Women’s March.
Women gathered at noon at Queen Elizabeth Park in Hamilton to celebrate this year’s global theme of #WomensWave, de...
DATE: Jan 22, 2019
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More than 200 young people and adults turned out for a pilot youth forum.
The event on Friday focused on problems such as bullying, suicide gang violence and the decriminalisation of cannabis.
Kasia Burgess, 18, from CedarBridge Academy, Vincent Darr...
DATE: Jan 21, 2019
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Teachers from all the island’s schools have been invited by Warwick Academy to a special workshop for educators today on the “art of learning”.
The school, supported by the Lancashire Foundation, is offering local teachers professional development wo...
DATE: Jan 21, 2019
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A regular visitor to Bermuda is to run all three legs of the Bermuda Marathon Weekend to raise cash for a cancer charity in memory of his wife, Lisa, who died of the disease.
Ms Maloney died of cancer in 2016 and husband, Kevin, decided to run to hel...
DATE: Jan 19, 2019
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A schoolmate’s good deed inspired a ten-year-old girl to help a charity.
Alaysia Glasford, a primary 6 pupil at Paget Primary School, handed $340 collected instead of Christmas gifts to the Bermuda Society for the Blind on Tuesday.
She said: “Every t...
DATE: Jan 18, 2019
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