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The sound of driving rain, welcome to most Bermudians, brings foreboding in the Roach household, where flooding remains a reality after years of roadworks.“Niagara Falls had nothing on it,” John Roach told The Royal Gazette, after last week's record ...
DATE: Jan 10, 2017
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Karim Creary did not always find it easy to see things from the perspective of other people.
It was the realisation that he was “kind of being a jerk” during family arguments that led him to spread his message of empathy on the stage at St Lawrence U...
DATE: Jan 09, 2017
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Embattled home affairs minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin insisted she holds “no dislike” for the Reverend Nicholas Tweed as she laid bare the background to her “difficult” decision not to renew his work permit.
After a week of protest and industrial a...
DATE: Jan 07, 2017
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“Post-truth politics” and mis- information has been given out on the island’s spending for the America’s Cup, according to Grant Gibbons, the Minister of Economic Development.
Dr Gibbons was responding yesterday to a statement from Jamahl Simmons, th...
DATE: Jan 06, 2017
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Insulting attacks “will not end well” for detractors of the People’s Campaign, warned union leader Jason Hayward, who said a false narrative had unfairly blamed protesters for dividing the country and inciting a “clash”.
The president of the Bermuda ...
DATE: Jan 05, 2017
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It has only been a few months since eight-year-old martial arts prodigy Diyahjae DeShield donned the white robe of a karate student — and already he sports an orange belt.
Kyoshi John Richards at the Zen-Shin Martial Arts Academy told the boy’s famil...
DATE: Jan 03, 2017
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Automated paid parking is in store at all of Hamilton’s major parking lots for the new year, as the city seeks additional revenue.
The ticket and barrier system implemented at City Hall brought in around $46,000 for the month of November, according t...
DATE: Jan 03, 2017
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“Outsourcing” of ferry jobs is among the issues to be discussed at this morning’s union meeting, with Bermuda Industrial Union head Chris Furbert warning it will be “game on” if members’ jobs are threatened.
However, Senator Michael Fahy, the Ministe...
DATE: Jan 03, 2017
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He is known for the fiery style of his sermons — and the Reverend Nicholas Tweed did not disappoint when People’s Campaign members gathered to discuss his work permit row yesterday.
The embattled pastor told a packed St Paul AME Centennial Hall that ...
DATE: Jan 03, 2017
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This year stood as a milestone for Barbados, which marked 50 prosperous years of independence in 2016 — but could Bermuda learn from its example?
A leading tourist destination with a background in sugar production, Barbados has developed an impressiv...
DATE: Dec 31, 2016
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