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For the first time in their history, food distributors the Eliza DoLittle Society (TEDS) have found themselves unable to meet demands.
Numbers have surged on Bermuda’s food supply centres just in the past six months, executive director Margaret Ward ...
DATE: Apr 20, 2013
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The 75th Agricultural Exhibition made an apparent break with tradition this year — the SPCA weren’t invited.
“This year, nothing — they just cut them off,” said the group’s former animal welfare officer Debbie Masters.
She said it’s been customary fo...
DATE: Apr 20, 2013
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A boat stranded along Ferry Reach is not abandoned — and its owner has appealed for it to be left alone after it was broken into.
“Nobody abandons a $120,000 boat,” said Oluf Ingemann whose 40ft trawler was left high and dry in 2010 by Hurricane Igor...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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Animal wardens are yet to determine how caged ducklings, found lifeless in a Botanical Gardens enclosure, died.
The birds, which were found dead on April 8, have been examined with no answers forthcoming.
A Parks Department spokeswoman said: “We do n...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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Sticking to an improbable story for shoplifting $20 of cosmetics resulted in a court date for a 23-year-old mother of two.
Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner told Donita Smith he had been willing to dismiss her case with a conditional discharge.
Inst...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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A “repeat offender” with a history of mental illness and addiction was jailed for three years.
Tracyston Mallory, 26, of Boundary Crescent, Devonshire, admitted stealing liquor and jewellery totalling $4,770, from Devonshire homes.
The thefts occurre...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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A Westgate inmate whose punch sent another prisoner to hospital insisted yesterday that he hadn’t meant to “hit him hard”.
Pelealkhai Williams said he struck George Dyer on March 4 because he had been “mouthing off”.
The 28-year-old punched Dyer in t...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
A billboard-sized roadside banner advertising a phone sale drew ire from one resident — but the company said it’s only a temporary sign.
The CellOne ad along South Shore Road in Warwick wasn’t a hit with neighbour Andre Simons.
“I don’t want to have ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2013
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The Bermuda National Gallery is determined to maintain free admission, despite steep operating costs and a plunge in sponsorship.
BNG director Lisa Howie told The Royal Gazette she was proud of the gallery’s commitment to keeping membership rates dow...
DATE: Apr 18, 2013
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A medical practice has resorted to hiring its own debt collector to track down a soaring number of patients refusing to pay.
The company has accumulated roughly $300,000 in unpaid bills since 2011, said one doctor, who requested anonymity for this st...
DATE: Apr 18, 2013
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Health
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