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Unprecedented wildfires ravaging Canada’s west have brought unease to Bermuda’s Canadian community — especially those with links to Fort McMurray, Alberta, now completely evacuated.
Sarah Morgan, whose brother Nicholas Waddington is a Fire Captain in...
DATE: May 05, 2016
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The impending 50th anniversary of Teen Services is a poignant occasion for Olga Scott, who came to Bermuda in 1967 to help get the fledgeling children’s welfare programme started.
Decades later, Mrs Scott, the wife of former Premier Alex Scott, remai...
DATE: May 04, 2016
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Michael Dunkley said Bermuda marked an historic occasion yesterday as he signed a memorandum of understanding in the Azores with Vasco Cordeiro, President of the autonomous region.
The Premier said the trip also enabled him to discuss practical measu...
DATE: May 04, 2016
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Two Bermudian guests got treated to a grand presidential tradition on Saturday night in Washington: former premier Ewart Brown and his wife Wanda joined the laugher at president Barack Obama’s farewell White House correspondents’ dinner.
“It was amaz...
DATE: May 03, 2016
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An unpopular transport policy for Dockyard has been reversed, enabling visitors to buy tokens and two-day passes for the island’s public transportation.
The switch came as the Anthem of the Seas, the biggest cruise liner ever to call on the island, m...
DATE: May 03, 2016
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Three people were left trapped after a van crashed into a pillar this afternoon.
The accident took place outside the First Baptist Church on Middle Road, Devonshire, near to the junction of Marsh Lane, shortly after 2.15pm.
The victims were extracted...
DATE: May 03, 2016
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Michael Dunkley has acknowledged that Bermuda’s “temperature is a bit higher than I would like it to be”, but attributes much of the island’s political discord to electoral fever.
“Political tension in a community is always based on where you are in ...
DATE: May 02, 2016
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Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Broadcasting Company continues to work on restoring television service for customers who do not use cable TV.
The broadcaster sustained severe damage to its equipment during a storm on March 29, which struck just weeks after the company c...
DATE: May 02, 2016
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Imagine Bermuda is marking April as Hospitality Month with a call for residents to reach out to people outside their circle of acquaintance for a short meal and a chat.
Glenn Fubler, one of the group’s founding members, said that Michael Dunkley and ...
DATE: Apr 29, 2016
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The demolition of the historic but decaying Victoria Row, said to lack the necessary investors to save the buildings, has drawn a comeback from Habitat for Humanity Bermuda.
The West End Development Corporation, which owns the 19th-century buildings,...
DATE: Apr 29, 2016
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