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The British copyrights authority PRS for Music is offering the Island’s hospitality sector a break on tariffs to be paid on background music in restaurants, bars and cafés.
The effort to get Bermuda’s establishments to pay for their music has met wit...
DATE: Oct 12, 2015
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The dark side of the Island’s luxurious vegetation emerged as the theme of a photo study by Paul Hardy Carter, artist in residence for the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art.
Verdant, an exhibition of the British artist’s works created during his stay...
DATE: Oct 12, 2015
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It has been a tough but incredible recovery for young Leighnae Lowe, who was 6 when doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta discovered a tumour in a critical area of her brain.
After an uncommon and potentially risky operation, Leighnae is flouri...
DATE: Oct 12, 2015
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A man who sent a barrage of sexual advances to a schoolgirl under the age of 16 has been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for unlawful carnal knowledge.
Aaron Ashley O’Connor, 21, of The Glebe Road, Pembroke, sent the girl “this constant, constant,...
DATE: Oct 10, 2015
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Gavin Kennedy, the owner of the premises where gunmen carried out a raid using tinted helmet visors to disguise themselves, shows his support for a campaign by The Royal Gazette to outlaw visors that completely obscure the wearer’s features.
The Mon...
DATE: Oct 09, 2015
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A court date is likely to be set this year for the ongoing legal dispute between the Bermuda Public Services Union and four other public sector trade unions, and the Bermuda Government, which is seeking an injunction against walkouts.
The detail emer...
DATE: Oct 09, 2015
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The Bermuda Government’s revenues climbed $8.4 million, or 3.9 per cent, to $221.2 million during the second quarter of this year.
However, government spending also increased by 1.4 per cent for the period of April through to June, to $269.8 million....
DATE: Oct 08, 2015
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The president and treasurer of the Bermuda Public Services Union declined to comment last night on an unattributed e-mail circulating ahead of tomorrow’s annual general meeting, questioning the union’s use of members’ dues.
Jason Hayward said that an...
DATE: Oct 07, 2015
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The new head boy at Berkeley Institute has given students something to feel good about: Azendé Furbert is very much one of their own.
“Normally it’s always the smartest person that applies for head boy,” Azendé explained. “I thought that if I applied...
DATE: Oct 07, 2015
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Michael Dunkley is to meet with Bermuda Ombudsman Victoria Pearman in the “near future” to discuss concerns expressed over “dismissive language” used by Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs, towards her office. It comes after letters sent in Au...
DATE: Oct 07, 2015
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