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Three days’ advance notice has been agreed for future industrial action at the docks after a dispute over a dismissed worker was settled with management.
The resolution was announced yesterday by Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial...
DATE: May 02, 2018
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About 100 soldiers from the Royal Bermuda Regiment have started a one week on-island camp.
The troops will train at Warwick Camp this week instead of the traditional overseas exercise.
Their ranks from infantry soldiers from A Company, to signallers ...
DATE: May 02, 2018
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Post offices will close tomorrow at 1pm for a mandatory staff meeting to hear of “proposed plans for the evolution of services” from Lovitta Foggo, the government reform minister.
The main office and all sub offices will resume service at regular hou...
DATE: May 02, 2018
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Tributes have been paid in Parliament to Eunice Butterfield, a “matriarch of St George’s” and beautician for generations in the East End.
Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Government Reform, said that Ms Butterfield, who died last month at the age of 93...
DATE: May 01, 2018
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The airport reopened last night after a small private aircraft crashed on the runway yesterday afternoon.
Aaron Adderley, president of Skyport, confirmed that LF Wade International Airport had reopened at about 9.15pm.
Mr Adderley said: “The pilot w...
DATE: May 01, 2018
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A Bermuda link to a Caribbean influx to Britain 70 years ago has surfaced after a scandal erupted in the UK about the treatment of the emigrants.
The BBC said the liner HMT Empire Windrush, which took hundreds from the Caribbean to Britain in 1948, t...
DATE: May 01, 2018
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Businessman Antony “Monty” Francis was remembered fondly by MPs on both sides of the House of Assembly after his death just short of his 58th birthday last week.
One Bermuda Alliance MP Sylvan Richards recalled sharing accommodation with Mr Francis i...
DATE: May 01, 2018
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Grant Gibbons joined the political fray in 1992 as part of a new group of well-educated, business savvy candidates in the ruling United Bermuda Party.
At the time, Dr Gibbons, who was the managing director of the family business Gibbons Company, made...
DATE: Apr 30, 2018
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The Progressive Labour Party has vowed to field “candidates with commitment and dedication to their communities” after the resignations last week of Opposition MPs Jeff Baron and Grant Gibbons.
Jeff Baron of the One Bermuda Alliance declared his depa...
DATE: Apr 30, 2018
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The Premier hailed a “historic” day for the island as he signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday with global cryptocurrency trader Binance.
David Burt signed the MOU with Zhao Changpeng, the chief executive of “the world’s largest cryptocurren...
DATE: Apr 28, 2018
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