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A reggae and soca concert set for the America’s Cup World Series this October in Bermuda is unlikely to have Bermuda’s own Uzimon, owing to what the artist called high ticket prices and a dearth of local acts.
International acts set to headline the O...
DATE: Sep 11, 2015
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The start of a new school year has prompted a top Bermudian executive to tell local students that nothing in life worth having comes easily — but a renewed focus on studies can lead to a new beginning.
The community group Imagine Bermuda has taken th...
DATE: Sep 11, 2015
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Mental health campaigner Mike Veeny has concluded that he loves Bermuda and wants very much to come here again, an audience heard last night in City Hall.
“I’m mentally ill, so you might not want me,” added Mr Veeny, with the characteristic humour th...
DATE: Sep 11, 2015
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Mother of three Kiahna Trott-Edwards was last night in custody, facing what is likely to be a “lengthy” term of imprisonment after a jury unanimously found her guilty of murdering 16-year-old Shijuan Mungal.
Closing a three-week trial that was closel...
DATE: Sep 10, 2015
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Jonathan Bell
One of the Island’s top nature reserves has gone pink for the summer, but the strange colours that have taken over the waters of Spittal Pond are a harmless organism brought on by warm weather.
However, former government conservation officer David Wi...
DATE: Sep 10, 2015
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Planning decisions for an America’s Cup development at the South Basin in Dockyard were abruptly revised yesterday, after a series of complaints from the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce.
“This is all rather sudden,” said Best chairman ...
DATE: Sep 10, 2015
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Politicians may have been excluded from speaking at Labour Day commemorations, but yesterday’s celebration of workers’ rights came with an unrelenting condemnation of the policies of the One Bermuda Alliance Government.
“The critics are out there,” w...
DATE: Sep 08, 2015
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Today marks a milestone for Queen Elizabeth II: at 63 years, seven months and two days, her reign now overtakes that of Queen Victoria — making her the longest-reigning monarch in British history.
The Island has been visited several times during her ...
DATE: Sep 08, 2015
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One of the Island’s centenarians, Doris Corbin, a longstanding organist and choir director for St Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, died on Sunday at the age of 103.
A former teacher at Central Primary School, now Victor Scott Primary School, ...
DATE: Sep 08, 2015
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The family of Johnathan Darrell, whose life was claimed in a stabbing incident at Rural Hill Plaza on August 22, remembered a sociable and hard-working man “loved by everyone” at a special service over the weekend.
“My son was a lover, not a fighter ...
DATE: Sep 08, 2015
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