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The family of a 14-year-old schoolgirl with a serious heart condition beat their $10,000 target to pay for urgent medical tests in America just hours after her story was highlighted by The Royal Gazette.
Big-hearted donors, including an anonymous Goo...
DATE: Oct 17, 2018
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Everard Davis, a trailblazing broadcaster who managed ZFB, Bermuda’s second television station, has died. Mr Davis was 79.
Mr Davis was also the first manager of the Liberty Theatre cinema, opened by the Bermuda Industrial Union in 1987.
His daughter...
DATE: Oct 17, 2018
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Bermuda’s new Oleander cargo ship has been launched at a shipyard in China, Bermuda Container Line said yesterday.
John Wight, the chairman of BCL, said the ship slid down Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group’s slipway in Jingjiang on the Yangtze R...
DATE: Oct 16, 2018
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A woman walking her dog saw people running and one fall over the night Bermudian teenager Lyrico Steede suffered fatal stab wounds in a park in England.
Natasha Hannon told Nottingham Crown Court yesterday that she and her husband saw three young men...
DATE: Oct 16, 2018
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Bermuda’s tenpin bowling queen Hattieann Gilbert has immortalised her story in a new book.
Bowling My Way: 1962–1987 traces Ms Gilbert’s career from a chance encounter with the sport to bowling stardom.
She said: “It’s my legacy and it’s been worth ...
DATE: Oct 16, 2018
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A 14-year-old girl who has suffered from a life-threatening heart problem since birth has to return to the United States for urgent tests, her mother said yesterday.
Now the family have launched an appeal for public help to raise $10,000 to help sing...
DATE: Oct 16, 2018
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A new electronic land registration system will make it harder for fraudsters to steal property, the Land Registrar has said.
Debbie Reid added her office had fielded complaints from people who said they had lost land, but a new electronic registratio...
DATE: Oct 15, 2018
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A former drug user who used exercise as a route out of addiction used fitness classes as a way to thank a lifeline charity.
Michaele Parfitt, who beat a 12-year addiction in 2014, teamed up with Pembroke-based Streaker’s Spin Studio to raise funds fo...
DATE: Oct 13, 2018
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Unionised Belco workers headed to the Bermuda Industrial Union headquarters yesterday for a meeting — a week after they backed a work-to-rule at the power firm.
Electricity Supply Trade Union members were called to the meeting a day after the union i...
DATE: Oct 13, 2018
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Bermudian actor Earl Cameron is to feature alongside other black stars who broke the movie “colour bar”.
Mr Cameron will appear in the first instalment of Britain’s BBC Two documentary series Black Hollywood tonight.
The series premiere, at 9pm UK ti...
DATE: Oct 13, 2018
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