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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
Police have made six arrests in the past 24 hours in connection with a spate of street robberies, it was revealed yesterday.
Commissioner of Police Stephen Corbishley said stolen property, as well as a stolen bike, had also been recovered.
The news c...
DATE: Aug 23, 2018
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Crime
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Jonathan Bell
Marion De Jean, a teacher and activist, “helped make Bermuda a better place”, community activist Glenn Fubler said yesterday.
Mr Fubler, of community group Imagine Bermuda, said Ms deJean, who died last month at the age of 95, was, along with her lat...
DATE: Aug 22, 2018
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A medical emergency on cruise ship Celebrity Summit resulted in a 13-year-old boy being brought ashore for treatment early yesterday.
The passenger is believed to have suffered a brain embolism, the Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre said.
The centre...
DATE: Aug 22, 2018
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President Donald Trump’s former lawyer launched a phone attack on a Bermudian-born journalist, it has been revealed.
News of the verbal outburst against Clare O’Connor came on the same day that Michael Cohen made a plea bargain in the United States D...
DATE: Aug 22, 2018
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A spate of nine robberies involving motorcycles was yesterday branded “a concerning crime trend” by the island’s new Commissioner of Police.
Stephen Corbishley said incidents involving motorbike snatches had rocketed over the past two weeks.
Mr Corbi...
DATE: Aug 21, 2018
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Crime
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Jonathan Bell
Two graduates of an adventure training scheme have won awards for their commitment.
Keisha Butterfield was given the Malcolm K Outerbridge Transformation Award and Andrea Burrows picked up the Michael J Spurling Award from Raleigh Bermuda.
Now Ms But...
DATE: Aug 20, 2018
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John Rankin, the Governor, paid tribute today to the late Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Mr Annan, a Ghanaian diplomat who served as Secretary-General from 1997 to 2006, died on Saturday, aged 80.
In a statement from ...
DATE: Aug 20, 2018
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