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The Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo (BAMZ) is open for business — and has been since Sunday, in spite of sustaining some damage over the weekend from Hurricane Gonzalo.
Staff are hard at work to reopen the exhibits that aren’t yet ready for guests, ...
DATE: Oct 20, 2014
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Communications have been disrupted with the East End this evening — but eyewitness reports coming in to The Royal Gazette suggest the Old Town’s popular White Horse Tavern on King’s Square has lost at least a portion of its roof during Hurricane Gon...
DATE: Oct 17, 2014
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Forecasters are confident in their predictions that Hurricane Gonzalo will swerve and hit Bermuda in much the manner that has been plotted all week — mainly because of larger meteorological forces at work in the Atlantic.
Asked why the Bermuda Weathe...
DATE: Oct 16, 2014
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Tribute was paid yesterday to US businessman John Manna, an eclectic supplier of heavy equipment to Bermudian businesses and a long-standing promoter of the Island for several decades.
Healthcare activist Mark Selley called the retired Lieutenant Col...
DATE: Oct 16, 2014
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Bermuda can expect Hurricane Gonzalo to deliver a repeat of the severity dealt by 2003’s Hurricane Fabian, the Bermuda Weather Service declared yesterday after an Emergency Measures Organisation (EMO) meeting.
Tropical Storm force winds are due to be...
DATE: Oct 16, 2014
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Hurricane Gonzalo will arrive as a strong Category 3 storm tomorrow — and out of what Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva advised was “an abundance of caution” the Causeway will close at 10am.
Gonzalo’s expected 8pm impact is close enough to the 5pm ...
DATE: Oct 16, 2014
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Belco reports 1,900 remaining customers without power as of 9am today. Crews remain hard at work in several pockets of the Island, particularly the Cedar Hill area.
Work remains to be done in the following areas, and is likely to proceed slowly as “s...
DATE: Oct 15, 2014
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Hurricane Gonzalo’s approach is being closely monitored by the Bermuda Tourism Authority (BTA), which is liaising with the Bermuda Hotel Association, L.F. Wade International Airport and other authorities.
The Bermuda Weather Service (BWS) is also tra...
DATE: Oct 15, 2014
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Tropical Storm Fay resulted in hundreds of insurance claims, starting in the immediate aftermath of the storm’s impact on Sunday, according to BF&M president John Wight.
The insurer initially handled “approximately 100 claims — most of them are minor...
DATE: Oct 14, 2014
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A windy and somewhat damp night was nonetheless passed comfortably by about 50 residents of the Salvation Army’s ageing shelter on North Street during Tropical Storm Fay.
Divisional commander Frank Pittman said both the emergency shelter and the Harb...
DATE: Oct 14, 2014
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