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The lack of wind was not kind to kite flyers but residents got into the Easter spirit as they gathered across the island to celebrate Good Friday.
At Horseshoe Bay, Karla Aitken and her friend Kirsten Bruun invited passers-by for fishcakes and a drin...
DATE: Mar 31, 2018
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A man’s ten-year jail term for the manslaughter of Travis Lowe can be challenged by the Crown after the courts granted leave to appeal.
The Crown had originally called for 16 to 20 years’ imprisonment for Keythio Whitehurst, found guilty in July 2017...
DATE: Mar 29, 2018
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Court
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Barbara Cooper, known as “Tuppy”, has died at the age of 84.
Ms Cooper, a member of the Bermuda Rose Society, edited Roses in Bermuda, the authoritative guide.
She was a key figure in the design of the society’s revamped garden for rare and classic B...
DATE: Mar 29, 2018
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The $23 million transformation of a failed housing complex in Warwick into a condo hotel was welcomed by a business owner yesterday.
Jay Correia, owner of the Swizzle South Shore right across South Shore Road from the Grand Atlantic development said:...
DATE: Mar 29, 2018
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Tourism
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Jonathan Bell
A new $300 million-plus power plant and cargo port could generate a fresh role for Marginal Wharf in St David’s.
The two schemes, expected to cost more than $150 million each and take several years to complete were announced yesterday by Lieutenant-...
DATE: Mar 28, 2018
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Work at a resort development at Morgan’s Point ground to a halt yesterday after workers were told the hotel construction phase was on hold “until further notice”.
About 150 construction staff were affected by the decision.
The news came after three d...
DATE: Mar 27, 2018
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Students from nine public primary schools have learnt the value of hard work as well as computer coding in the first round of classes offered at the ConnecTech IT school.
Company head Coral Wells said that students had discovered animation and how to...
DATE: Mar 27, 2018
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Education
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Jonathan Bell
Muriel Archer, a missionary and teacher who died in the UK aged 96, has been remembered as a driving force behind Bermuda’s hospice.
Agape House, which opened in 1991, was boosted by the formation of charity group Friends of Hospice in 1994.
Ms Arche...
DATE: Mar 27, 2018
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An artist’s journey into his Bermuda roots is on display this month at the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan, New York City.
American artist Cy Gavin appears in the Whitney Museum’s Between the Waters exhibition alongside severa...
DATE: Mar 27, 2018
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Stark new figures reveal how chronically sick Bermudians fare worse in comparison with British diabetes patients.
However, the Bermuda Wellness Foundation sees hope through tweaks to the island’s healthcare model. Two proposals emerging from a “groun...
DATE: Mar 26, 2018
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