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Boat owners got a reminder today from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources on the safe zones to discharge sewage from their vessels.
Sewage is permitted overboard outside of no-discharge zones, beyond the near shore area — or greater t...
DATE: Oct 08, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Prizes were issued this week by the Mirrors Programme for its second annual art and digital competition, hosted by the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art.
The theme was Bermuda’s way of life, its cultural symbols, neighbourhoods and people, with more ...
DATE: Oct 07, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermudian charities have been given an $85,000 boost by a bank’s donation programme.
The Reading Clinic received $50,000 and the Coalition for the Protection of Children, Tomorrow’s Voices and YouthNet were awarded $10,000 each. Bermuda Youth Rugby r...
DATE: Oct 06, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A veteran Gombey dancer was honoured yesterday at the launch of a festival to celebrate the island’s iconic dancers.
Leon “Sparky” Place, a former dancer and drummer with Place’s Gombeys, as well as traditional dancers from overseas were at Victoria ...
DATE: Oct 06, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Lyrico Steede, a 17-year-old Bermudian stabbed to death in England, was “lured” to the scene of his attack, a jury in Nottingham Crown Court heard.
Peter Joyce QC opened the case against the five murder accused on Wednesday.
The college student, who ...
DATE: Oct 05, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Orange Route ferry services between Dockyard and St George’s resumed at 9.30am today, according to the Department of Marine and Ports.
Rough seas had resulted in the service being suspended.
The public can visit www.marineandports.bm for up-to-da...
DATE: Oct 05, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Electrical Supply Trade Union is imposing work to rule, and demanding the “immediate reinstatement” of four Bermudian workers “displaced” at Ascendant Group, according to a statement issued by Jason Hayward, president of the Bermuda Trade Union C...
DATE: Oct 04, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Women are “more needed than ever” to step up in politics, the island’s first Progressive Labour Party premier said yesterday.
Dame Jennifer Smith, who led the PLP to its historic 1998 victory, said: “Women who are there in politics should each pick a...
DATE: Oct 03, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Roadside breath test checkpoints will be set up for the second time this weekend, police warned yesterday.
The checkpoints in Devonshire and Paget, gazetted last Friday, will be in force on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The first set of checks ran fro...
DATE: Oct 03, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Carlos “Lindy” Bosch, a former president of Bacardi International, has died. Mr Bosch was 91.
Mr Bosch, a member of the Bacardi family, was instrumental in the relocation of the Cuban-born drinks dynasty to a new home in Bermuda in 1965.
Bacardi, fou...
DATE: Oct 02, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell