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Residents struggled to get back home from Christmas holidays as flights to Bermuda from the US east coast were delayed or cancelled.
Delta’s flight 561 from Boston Logan was delayed by four hours and had to fight through storm force winds to land at ...
DATE: Dec 29, 2010
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A boat carrying two Bermudian sailors remains missing at sea, five days after it was due to arrive in Bermuda.
The Carefree IV, a 31-foot sailboat, left the Dominican Republic on December 1.
It was last seen on December 18, when it sent a distress si...
DATE: Dec 29, 2010
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Bermuda should get a “brief respite” from bad weather over Christmas Day but our winter as a whole looks to remain cold.
Bermuda Weather Service (BWS) meteorologist Jeff Torgerson said winds should taper off later this evening.
“I wish I could say it...
DATE: Dec 24, 2010
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A scam text message has bombarded the Island.
Claiming to come from a Nokia representative, the message tells recipients they have won a ‘Nokia end-of-year mobile promo”.
Police said the Financial Crime Unit has received hundreds of complaints from i...
DATE: Dec 24, 2010
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Jonathan Bell
Two more donors have added to a scholarship fund in memory of 22-year-old sailor Adam Goodwin.
Midsea Consultants, along with the staff of Strands Hair Salon, presented cheques to the Bermuda Sloop Foundation yesterday. The fund goes toward the train...
DATE: Dec 23, 2010
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Meals on Wheels got some Christmas help from Capital G staff as part of the company's holiday giving back programme.
Volunteers helped make and deliver hot lunches to Bermuda's elderly and shut in.
The company chooses a different charity each Christm...
DATE: Dec 23, 2010
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Two in five of us have friends and family who take illegal drugs and 60 percent have friends and family who get drunk. Half of us think it's easy to get cannabis, which is by far the most commonly abused illegal drug in Bermuda. And younger Bermudian...
DATE: Dec 23, 2010
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Bermudian motivational speaker Dennis Rahiim Watson plans to return to Bermuda next year with an anti-violence message bolstered by experiences such as last Saturday’s “peace summit” in New York City.
As Chairman of the National Youth and Gang Violen...
DATE: Dec 22, 2010
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Crime
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Jonathan Bell
Temperatures plunged to a record low of 48F (9C) the coldest ever recorded for December.
The chill at 4am yesterday broke the previous monthly low of 50F (10C). Bermuda's coldest temperature on record is 44F (6.6C), from February of 1950.
The storm b...
DATE: Dec 22, 2010
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Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda's weather hit a record new low this morning with a temperature of 48F, just under 9C — the lowest this year and the lowest ever recorded for December, according to the Bermuda Weather Service.
Weather forecaster Michelle Pitcher said it was r...
DATE: Dec 21, 2010
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Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
