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New material has emerged about Mary Prince, a Bermudian-born former slave whose autobiography stoked the fires of the British abolitionist movement in the 1830s.
Prince’s story was little known on the island until it grabbed attention in the 1980s an...
DATE: Sep 28, 2018
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A major ball hockey tournament has given a $1 million boost to the economy, the Bermuda Tourism Authority said yesterday.
Tourism chiefs said the World Masters Ball Hockey Championships had accounted for 1,200 room nights booked at the Hamilton Princ...
DATE: Sep 27, 2018
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Tourism
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Jonathan Bell
A celebrity go-kart race around the streets of North Hamilton is planned for next month as part of a free family event to promote a sense of community.
Rick Richardson, head of the organising charity, Bermuda International Football Festival, said the...
DATE: Sep 26, 2018
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A man who launched a knife attack fuelled by “testosterone and jealousy” was jailed for two years yesterday at the Supreme Court.
Christopher Flood, 32, admitted stabbing Walter Pereira, who had visited his house to see his ten-year-old daughter and ...
DATE: Sep 26, 2018
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Court
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Jonathan Bell
Former Opposition leader Jeanne Atherden has said she regretted a rift with Nick Kempe, who quit as One Bermuda Alliance chairman after he was axed from a seat in the Senate.
Ms Atherden, who resigned as party leader last week after eight of her ten ...
DATE: Sep 25, 2018
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
The Employee Assistance Programme, under the guidance of new executive director Latisha Lister-Burgess, is increasingly a resource for managers as well as staff.
Ms Lister-Burgess said the EAP, more than 30 years old, retains the same fundamental mis...
DATE: Sep 22, 2018
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s “exemplars of peace” are to be honoured by community group Imagine Bermuda as the world marks the United Nations International Day of Peace today.
Among them is Lance Furbert, retired musician and Bermuda’s former curator of forts.
Glenn Fu...
DATE: Sep 21, 2018
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Jonathan Bell
Wellington Darrell Sr, known to many as Steede or Steve, a versatile Bermudian musician, has died.
Mr. Darrell was 87.
Mr Darell was a multi-talented musician and played guitar, accordion, congo drums, the organ and saxophone.
But the instrument he e...
DATE: Sep 20, 2018
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Jonathan Bell
The Department of Immigration is to speed up its processing time for applications, the Ministry of Home Affairs has announced.
A spokeswoman said Walton Brown, the minister, had met staff to set up “short-term and medium-term plans” to address its ba...
DATE: Sep 20, 2018
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Jonathan Bell
Debate champion Kenza Wilks has turned his gift of the gab into a business proposition.
The 19-year-old, who came top in the World Schools’ Debating Championship last year said his company would “turn your public-speaking liability into greatest asse...
DATE: Sep 20, 2018
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Jonathan Bell