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Bernard Fox, a “free-spirited warrior of St David’s” who honoured his Pequot tribe heritage with the name Chief Running Water, has died at the age of 86.
His sister, Ronnie Chameau, said her brother was “liked by all” in St David’s, where he repaired...
DATE: Aug 30, 2018
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C.V. “Jim” Woolridge, one of the leading figures of the former United Bermuda Party and a cricket commentator famed as the “Voice of Summer”, died yesterday at the age of 92.
The long-serving former minister of tourism, who was MP for Smith’s South, ...
DATE: Aug 29, 2018
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C.V. “Jim” Woolridge was most famous for his many years as tourism minister.
A man of strong views, he said in his memoirs, The House that Jack Built, that he was “hired, fired, rehired, refired and then rehired again” from the ministry for standing ...
DATE: Aug 29, 2018
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CV “Jim” Woolridge was born in 1926 in Flatts as one of ten children.
He wrote in his memoirs that, appropriately given his later role as cricket’s Voice of Summer, that he “practically grew up on Flatts cricket field”.
Cricket was a lifelong passion...
DATE: Aug 29, 2018
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Four Uighur refugees have been granted citizenship nine years after a secret deal with the United States to give them asylum on the island.
The move was welcomed by Ewart Brown, the former premier, who arranged their transfer to Bermuda.
The home aff...
DATE: Aug 28, 2018
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
Classes offered by the Community Education Development Programme are to be shelved at the end of this month, according to Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education and Workforce Development.
The move came after Mr Rabain informed the House of Assembly...
DATE: Aug 27, 2018
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Education
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s new Commissioner of Police has “ambitious plans” for a transparent, trusted and responsive service that will give the community a say in how policing is delivered.
Stephen Corbishley will also leverage his relationship with the National Cri...
DATE: Aug 27, 2018
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A charity has been swamped by its biggest demand for school uniforms as needy families prepare for the start of the school year
Gina Spence, a community activist who has run her back-to-school programme for 16 years, said this year’s drive was under...
DATE: Aug 25, 2018
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A new option for diabetes sufferers to have a pancreas transplant in the US has been promoted in Bermuda.
Jay Graham, an assistant professor and abdominal transplant surgeon at Montefiore Medical Centre in New York, said he was “very excited” about t...
DATE: Aug 25, 2018
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Health
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Jonathan Bell
A man caught on camera stealing a wallet from a restaurant table yesterday handed himself in to police after footage of the incident was posted on social media.
The short clip is from a mobile phone taken from security cameras at Speciality Inn on So...
DATE: Aug 24, 2018
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Crime
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Jonathan Bell