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George Rover, the former deputy director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, has been engaged as a consultant by the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission.
Mr Rover will visit the island on a monthly basis to advise on “all gaming-related ma...
DATE: Apr 20, 2017
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The ranks of Bermuda’s homeless are increasingly being joined by “young people with backpacks”, according to longtime observer Dale Butler.
Mr Butler, a former Minister of Culture and Rehabilitation, believes that his 2009 documentary on the subject ...
DATE: Apr 19, 2017
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Broadway musical Groundhog Day, with Bermudian actress Rebecca Faulkenberry on stage once again, has opened with high praise after a brush with potential disaster.
“Opening night was amazing,” said Ms Faulkenberry, who has not read the reviews but he...
DATE: Apr 19, 2017
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Taxi drivers are “under siege”, according to a senior driver stabbed on his own property during a spate of robberies.
The St David’s resident, who asked not to be named, is on the mend, but voiced outrage at the attack on the night of April 9.
“Taxi ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2017
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Booking a 965ft ship to try out a new cruise concept is “probably one of the craziest things I’ve ever done”, according to lawyer-turned-promoter Nathaniel Turner.
But the ubersoca cruise, the Bermudian entrepreneur’s gamble on a travelling celebrati...
DATE: Apr 18, 2017
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Sweeping fraud has been alleged against Stemedica, a stem cell medical research company courted for Bermuda by former premier Ewart Brown.
Meanwhile, the company, which dismissed the accusation as “completely false, without merit, baseless and withou...
DATE: Apr 18, 2017
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Artwork by Bermuda High School students goes on display tomorrow at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art.
“The Penultimate Exhibition” by year IB2 students was created as part of final exams for the new international baccalaureate visual arts diplom...
DATE: Apr 18, 2017
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The sheer walls of Blackwatch Pass are getting a makeover, with visiting contractors scaling the cliffs to remove loose rock and vegetation.
The link from North Shore Road to Hamilton, with the dramatic overpass leading to Government House, opened in...
DATE: Apr 18, 2017
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Never the shy type, Bermuda’s international reggae artist Collie Buddz, aka Colin Harper, has predicted the island’s legalisation of cannabis.
The topic arose in his interview this month with the cannabis-friendly web journal Merry Jane, on the singl...
DATE: Apr 17, 2017
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Large numbers of Bermuda residents would have to give sworn evidence, and 20 years of records divulged, if the Bermuda Government’s lawsuit against the Lahey Clinic goes ahead, the Massachusetts-based hospital has argued.
Lahey has already filed a mo...
DATE: Apr 17, 2017
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