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Business owners were quick to pitch in as fire swept across Devonshire Marsh on Saturday, looming precariously close to warehouses and shops.
Winds fanned flames across the reserve and a barrage of embers and sparks kept the fire going despite firefi...
DATE: Mar 19, 2018
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Salaries paid to members of the legislature are to remain unchanged, Parliament heard on Friday.
David Burt, the Premier, told MPs that the board appointed to review salaries every two years had not met since 2011.
Mr Burt said a new set of ex parte ...
DATE: Mar 19, 2018
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Vidya Cannonier-Watson has grown, literally, by leaps and bounds.
Watching her mother, Sophia Cannonier, teach ballet classes when she was 3, Vidya, now 10, recalled: “I asked her if I could start.”
This August, she heads off to attend the Tring Park...
DATE: Mar 19, 2018
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More than half of people surveyed by the Government support a new tax on sugar, health minister Kim Wilson revealed on Friday.
Ms Wilson told MPs the impact on the baking industry of a tax on raw sugar had been taken into account.
She said: “This con...
DATE: Mar 19, 2018
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A bus shelter by Shelly Bay park was heavily damaged on Saturday after being struck by a car.
According to police, the crash occurred at about 1.25pm near the junction with Doctors Lane, when a car in the eastbound lane of North Shore Road came off t...
DATE: Mar 18, 2018
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A controlled burn on Hinsons Island this morning has resulted in several calls to emergency services.
Lieutenant Russann Francis of the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service said a number of calls had come in, but that the fire was horticultural waste bein...
DATE: Mar 18, 2018
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Alan Leigh, a schoolteacher and former principal at Heron Bay and Port Royal primary schools, has died, aged 84.
Neville Tyrrell, Warwick South Central MP, offered condolences to Mr Leigh’s family and his wife, Jennifer, yesterday in Parliament.
Mr L...
DATE: Mar 17, 2018
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Firefighters thanked the public for their help after a long day battling a major fire that swept across Devonshire Marsh, threatening businesses and homes.
Lieutenant Russann Francis of the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service reported at 3.45pm that majo...
DATE: Mar 17, 2018
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A call has gone out for security guards to make certain that their licensing is up to date by the end of this month.
National security minister Wayne Caines said there had been “some confusion” over training requirements.
The Private Investigators an...
DATE: Mar 16, 2018
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A Bermuda community group has answered a global call to celebrate unity to mark the 100th birthday of former South African president Nelson Mandela.
The Walk Together event organised by Imagine Bermuda is the first of several to commemorate the cente...
DATE: Mar 16, 2018
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