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With Hurricane Katia expected to swing past Bermuda’s west over tomorrow and Thursday, cruise ships serving the Island adjusted their schedules ahead of the storm.
Forecasters predicted powerful winds, with gale force gusts, to begin today and last t...
DATE: Sep 06, 2011
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A young entrepreneur has spent the summer quenching Bermuda’s thirst, and learning the value of hard work one lemon at a time.
Ashley Stephens started a lemonade stand earlier this year, and ran it on Saturdays outside Upscale Fashions, her mother Ea...
DATE: Sep 03, 2011
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Doctors are demanding FutureCare patients pay fees up front because of long delays in having their bills reimbursed by Government.
GPs say they were forced to do so after waiting as long as nine months before they were paid for care given to those en...
DATE: Aug 26, 2011
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Health
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Jonathan Bell
Bermudians caught in the path of Hurricane Irene yesterday reported fierce winds as the season’s first major storm pummelled the Bahamas.
Guilden Gilbert, sheltering with his family in Nassau, said at noon yesterday that the storm’s eye was passing 7...
DATE: Aug 26, 2011
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A 31-year-old Sandys man seriously injured in a road crash remains in stable condition, at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
Ashley Wellman struck a wall along Harbour Road, Paget while riding his motorcycle in the early hours ...
DATE: Aug 25, 2011
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Court
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Jonathan Bell
As the overtime ban for workers at the Hamilton Docks simmers on, food distributors confirmed that delays are having an impact on their operations.
Although Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert on Tuesday said the inconvenience has been “...
DATE: Aug 25, 2011
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Olive Ann Trott, who died last week aged 88, has been remembered as a trailblazing promoter in Bermuda’s entertainment scene and a community icon.
The founder of the Miss Bermuda Pageant in 1965, Mrs Trott was also a familiar face for decades at Ric...
DATE: Aug 25, 2011
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Jonathan Bell
The newly-formed Friswells Hill Neighbourhood Watch Group has announced its first community clean-up of the Pembroke neighbourhood.
Residents joined local MP Michael Weeks and Keep Bermuda Beautiful staff over the weekend, to paint over graffiti, pic...
DATE: Aug 25, 2011
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Crime
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Jonathan Bell
Turks and Caicos residents last night braced themselves for impact as Hurricane Irene the season's first moved across the islands.
Heavy rains, 90mph winds and intermittent power loss were reported. The Category One storm was predicted to continue we...
DATE: Aug 24, 2011
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda Public Services Union has vowed “a public demonstration of epic proportions” if the Berkeley Institute’s board of governors go ahead with a proposal to cut more than half the school’s support staff.
BPSU vice president Jason Hayward said yest...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
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Education
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Jonathan Bell