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The ideas and innovation conference TEDx is to return to Bermuda for its fourth year, after a record turnout of 920 guests for 2013’s talks.
TEDx, named for technology, entertainment and design, will be held on October 4 at the Fairmont Southampton h...
DATE: Sep 09, 2014
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An eyewitness to a high-speed powerboat accident that left a 19-foot vessel written off has counted the boat’s two teenaged crew “lucky to be alive”.
But owner and co-pilot of Trim Down For What were happily unscathed — although the powerboat’s driv...
DATE: Sep 08, 2014
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Bermudian hospitality apprentice Nick Thomson would dearly love to tell us about all the celebrities he’s catered to over the past several days — including many of the best-known names from the world of cinema.
But guarding the privacy of Hollywood’s...
DATE: Sep 08, 2014
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It’s back to class today for the Island’s roughly 6,000 public education students, as schools open their doors for the 2014/15 year.
Education and Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons will attend Dellwood Middle School this morning to welcome ...
DATE: Sep 08, 2014
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Playwrights Justine Foster and Julia Pitt have taken the coveted Golden Inkwell after the latest round of the local dramatists’ showdown Famous for 15 Minutes.
The annual contest was held at the Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society’s Daylesford Theat...
DATE: Sep 08, 2014
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Fundraising to cover the $40 million payout for the Island’s new hospital wing remains several million short of its goal, even though the facility’s completion is just days away.
However, the Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) has already covered the full...
DATE: Sep 06, 2014
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Two powerboat riders were fortunate to escape serious injury after their vessel flipped and took heavy damage during high speed training exercises near Coney Island.
The crewmen, aged 17 and 19, were hurled from the speedboat Trim Down for What as th...
DATE: Sep 06, 2014
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Public Works has pledged to reinstate a safety barrier across Tribe Road No 1, Southampton, two weeks after it was taken down.
The barrier had been implicated in the death of ten-year-old Tiffanelle Pitcher-Francis on January 11. Tiffanelle was kille...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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The make over of a dilapidated Pembroke home has left its residents singing the praises of the group Habitat for Humanity Bermuda — and determined to pass on the favour.
“I couldn’t believe what they accomplished in that short period of time — I have...
DATE: Sep 04, 2014
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The Salvation Army “hasn’t lost momentum” on replacing its decaying emergency housing shelter, new divisional commander Frank Pittman has vowed.
Major Pittman, who assumed his post a month ago, said he’d been taken aback by the decrepit state of the ...
DATE: Sep 03, 2014
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