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With air passenger numbers flagging, the Bermuda Government had to pay out millions to airline companies to cover the cost of North American routes in 2011 and 2012.
Canadian airline WestJet alone received more than $3.6 million in three separate pay...
DATE: Feb 11, 2013
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Government’s vow to reopen the Medical Clinic drew whistles and applause from those present for the reading of the Throne Speech.
But Age Concern director Claudette Fleming sounded a note of warning last night about “the potential of creating a two-t...
DATE: Feb 09, 2013
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A winter storm battering the East Coast has caused travel chaos for thousands and left many Bermudians stranded at home and abroad.
Some 3,500 flights in the US had been cancelled by yesterday evening, with another 1,200 predicted to be cancelled tod...
DATE: Feb 09, 2013
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Emergency medical responders took too long to reach this week’s fatal industrial accident at Morgan’s Point, a worker from the site has charged.
Three police cars arrived shortly after the accident but EMTs hadn’t shown 20 minutes later, the man clai...
DATE: Feb 08, 2013
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A masked man grabbed a store owner in a chokehold, then threatened him with a handgun, during an armed robbery in St David’s.
The man was working in the St David’s Variety store with his pregnant daughter at about 9.30pm on Wednesday.
The store owner...
DATE: Feb 08, 2013
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Crime
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The devastated widow of Millard Bean said her husband experienced a spiritual rebirth after her son’s road death last month.
Lorrie Bennett-Bean was yesterday consoled by friends and family at the home she and her husband had lived in near Bailey’s B...
DATE: Feb 07, 2013
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A man who used his four-year-old son to send death threats to his former partner has been jailed for two years.
Sahkai Weeks, of Fentons Drive, Pembroke gave the child three handwritten letters addressed to Renee Williams, threatening to kill her.
Th...
DATE: Feb 07, 2013
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Court
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Jonathan Bell
A 29-year-old American appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday on a charge of drug smuggling.
Rodney Small, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty to importing cannabis resin on January 31 and possessing the drug in St George’s with intent to ...
DATE: Feb 06, 2013
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Feel-good local musicians DemBiez need no encouragement to start singing: so far in their short career they’ve serenaded traffic officers and the cats at the SPCA.
The musical producers set up their company in December and have been spontaneously imp...
DATE: Feb 06, 2013
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Police have named Millard Bean, 47, of Smith’s parish, as the man who was killed at Morgan’s Point after part of a roof collapsed on him yesterday.
Mr Bean, who The Royal Gazette understands was an employee of Island Construction, was pronounced dead...
DATE: Feb 06, 2013
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