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Heritage Month is set to run through May 31 as a celebration of Bermuda’s historical treasures. The month was launched with a reception at City Hall.
“All events planned this year are uniquely based on the theme and to promote our many heritage sites...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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The cash-strapped family of cancer survivor Kamala Smith have been embraced by the North Village Community Club, with a fundraising football match to be held tomorrow.
Ms Smith, a mother of two, is battling the rare and debilitating cancer leiomyosar...
DATE: Apr 26, 2014
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The aunt of slain construction worker Erin Richardson says she can’t sleep another night in her Southampton home, where her beloved godson met his untimely death.
Mr Richardson was shot at around 10.45pm on Wednesday outside the family home at Rivier...
DATE: Apr 26, 2014
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Crime
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Jonathan Bell
The latest tourism figures show visitors staying longer during a traditionally quiet time for arrivals — and airline capacity has also grown, according to the Bermuda Tourism Authority.
The BTA yesterday published its performance statistics for the I...
DATE: Apr 25, 2014
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Tourism
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Jonathan Bell
Union bosses have declared they aren’t at liberty to comment on the decisions taken at yesterday’s meeting of transport workers — but bus and ferry services were back up and running in the aftermath.
Bermuda Industrial Union members convened from 10....
DATE: Apr 25, 2014
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The anti-gang group CARTEL has suffered a defeat in the Supreme Court after its lease of White’s Island was declared void.
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley ruled that the lease, which had been intended to cover a period of 21 years less one day, hadn’t rece...
DATE: Apr 24, 2014
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The Ministry of Health and Environment has instituted a raft of prevention measures in the wake of bad press over the Island’s sewage dumping at sea.
The discharge from the Seabright outfall on South Shore caused the US Consul to warn bathers to chec...
DATE: Apr 24, 2014
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Environment
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Jonathan Bell
A 29-year-old man was shot dead in Southampton last night.
He has been identified by Police as Erin Lee Richardson, who lived with family members in Riviera Crescent, Southampton.
According to Detective Chief Inspector Nicholas Pedro, the shooting t...
DATE: Apr 24, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
A courtroom sketch has resurfaced from a high-profile and controversial 1986 Bermuda case in which Israeli arms dealers suspected of trading with Iran drew world headlines with their deportation from the Island.
The sketch has joined 30 years’ worth ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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The Island may need warning flags to alert beachgoers of hazardous sewage waste, the environmental group Greenrock has suggested.
The organisation also branded media coverage of the dumping of raw sewage within sight of the Island’s shores “painful a...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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Jonathan Bell