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The latest contender for the gruelling Bermuda Challenge boat race appears to have turned back for shore, Bermuda Maritime Operations said.
Chris Fertig of Maersk Line set off from New York on Wednesday in the custom-designed TDI Clean Diesel, in the...
DATE: Sep 23, 2011
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A crusade to replenish the Island’s food charities has met an overwhelming response, according to Eliza Dolittle Society executive director Margaret Ward.
Forty businesses, including The Royal Gazette, have now signed on for collection boxes to take ...
DATE: Sep 23, 2011
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More than $70,000 was given out to charities, as executives and staff from the Island’s top international companies took to the beach at Horseshoe Bay.
Tokio Millennium Re Ltd won first place at the Centre on Philanthropy’s third annual Give Back Gam...
DATE: Sep 23, 2011
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The standing for PLP MP Neletha Butterfield remained in doubt last night after a constituency vote in Pembroke West Central proved the tightest so far in the party’s primaries.
The first count produced an unprecedented 35-35 tie between the incumbent...
DATE: Sep 23, 2011
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The death on Sunday of a 79-year-old US visitor and former resident of Bermuda appears to have been caused by drowning, police have announced.
Joe Alston had come to the Island on “a nostalgia trip”, his daughter Jan said yesterday from the family ho...
DATE: Sep 22, 2011
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A job centre for out-of-work Bermudians is to be formed from the amalgamation of the Department of Labour and Training and the National Training Board.
Economy and Trade Minister Kim Wilson said the two bodies would merge “in the near future”, after ...
DATE: Sep 22, 2011
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Workmen installing a new air conditioner at St George’s Town Hall got a surprise as they took out the old unit.
The spider and egg sacs inside was taken at first to be a black widow.
“I’ve never seen a spider like this, and I’ve lived in Bermuda all ...
DATE: Sep 22, 2011
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Health Minister Zane DeSilva and Deputy Speaker Randy Horton won key victories at Progressive Labour Party branch elections last night.
But Bermuda’s longest serving MP, Speaker Stanley Lowe, appears to have called time on his political career after ...
DATE: Sep 22, 2011
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Two sailors on a voyage from Bermuda to Ireland are being sought after their yacht, the Golden Eagle, failed to arrive at its destination.
The men, a 69-year-old from Norway and a man believed to be 60 and from New Zealand, were scheduled to reach Cr...
DATE: Sep 21, 2011
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A 62-year-old woman motorist was rescued from her flipped car yesterday, after the vehicle struck a wall along Somerset Road.
A Somerset woman ran to the scene after hearing “a loud crash” at about 1.55pm, from in front of St Joseph’s Church.
“I go o...
DATE: Sep 21, 2011
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