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A local taxi service is introducing an app for customers to book a cab via their phones.
Bermuda Island Taxi Service announced it is launching Mobile Transport, initially for Android phones and extending to other devices in the months ahead.
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DATE: Oct 14, 2015
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The Bermuda Industrial Union is preparing to release details on an ongoing rift with management at the Department of Marine and Ports, citing “concerns” about its director, Lieutenant Commander Richard Russell.
Speaking with The Royal Gazette after a...
DATE: Oct 14, 2015
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The members of the Boundaries Commission have been announced by Governor George Fergusson.
It will be chaired by Francis Alexis, QC, the former Attorney General of Grenada, who is at present finishing his role as chairman of that jurisdiction’s const...
DATE: Oct 14, 2015
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A guest worker has given a harrowing account of an armed robbery at her home in the early hours of yesterday, which left her visiting family traumatised by a knife-wielding assailant.
“It was like a nightmare,” said the woman, a Costa Rican who has l...
DATE: Oct 13, 2015
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Herbert Eldridge Marshall, one of the Island’s last surviving war veterans, has died at the age of 92.
Like many veterans who saw combat, Mr Marshall spoke little of his uglier experiences in the Second World War, preferring to tell only “cheerful, h...
DATE: Oct 13, 2015
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The Island’s top students were celebrated last night at a packed auditorium for the Commissioner’s Vision Awards, a police initiative for each of Bermuda’s schools.
“Be honest about everything you do and say, be positive no matter what the circumstan...
DATE: Oct 13, 2015
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The ability of people to connect with each other — for better or worse — was a recurring theme at this year’s TEDx.
Bringing the spirited celebration of ideas to Bermuda is no easy job.
“It’s been the toughest one ever,” organiser John Narraway told ...
DATE: Oct 13, 2015
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Bermuda’s Azorean community has a new champion: Friends of the House of the Azores of Bermuda.
The charity has grown to nearly 90 members since it formed in March, becoming a regular fixture at Harbour Nights, hosting Azorean officials and garnering ...
DATE: Oct 13, 2015
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Eleven young Bermudians have returned home from life-changing expeditions to far corners of the globe, courtesy of Raleigh Bermuda.
As the organisation prepares for next year’s members of its year-long personal development programme, eight of the lat...
DATE: Oct 12, 2015
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Environmentalists have questioned the ability of regulators to monitor Bermuda’s growing cellular network after a cell tower in Devonshire was approved over the objections of area residents.
According to the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskf...
DATE: Oct 12, 2015
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