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The Island’s churches aim to unite the Island through prayer.
A committee of pastors, collectively known as Bermuda Prays, yesterday announced they were responding to issues such as gang violence, and a decline in traditional family values.
They are ...
DATE: May 02, 2013
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A day care service for Bermuda’s seniors is to be cancelled by the Bermuda Hospitals Board, due to underuse.
The programme, which saw its numbers of visits fall by 50 percent over a five-year period, costs $270,000 a year to run — and last year serve...
DATE: May 02, 2013
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Islands in the North East Caribbean got an early awakening yesterday, when a 3am earthquake jolted the region.
The 5.3-magnitude quake rattled St Kitts, Nevis and St Eustatius, but no damage or injury was reported.
According to the US Geological Surv...
DATE: May 01, 2013
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Paving the way for a potential hotel to be built in Hamilton, the Corporation of Hamilton is seeking final approval from the Department of Planning to split Par-la-Ville car park from the adjacent park.
“Currently the Queen Elizabeth Park and Par-la-...
DATE: May 01, 2013
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A 39-year-old Pembroke man is recovering in hospital after falling from the balcony of Flanagan’s Pub on Front Street.
Revellers who were at the bar during the early hours of Sunday told The Royal Gazette the man had been leaning over the eastern sid...
DATE: Apr 30, 2013
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Government workers packed Hamilton’s St Paul AME Centennial Hall last night for a Bermuda Public Services Union meeting ahead of fresh negotiations with Government.
The first assembly of the BPSU’s general membership since the December 17 elections d...
DATE: Apr 30, 2013
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Hundreds of the Island’s keenest young mathematicians put their skills to the test yesterday for the Mathematics Olympiad.
So many turned up that volunteers were tested in grading them in time for the prize giving.
“This is probably the most papers w...
DATE: Apr 29, 2013
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Media entrepreneur Elmore Warren sees a new model for delivering an eye on the world using sophisticated web footage.
Seven years on from his collaboration with the German company Earth TV, which uses live broadcasts from cameras all over the globe, ...
DATE: Apr 29, 2013
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A nine-foot stingray spotted off Horseshoe Bay has been hailed an unprecedented first sighting for local waters.
Divers Chris Brown and Gunar Mayer spotted the colossal Roughtail Stingray in an area known as Hangover Hole, about 500 yards off the Sou...
DATE: Apr 27, 2013
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A food charity providing 2,000 meals a week to the Island’s needy has been given an emergency bailout by Bermuda CableVision.
The Eliza DoLittle Society recently sounded the alarm over empty shelves at its food bank — with director Margaret Ward sayi...
DATE: Apr 26, 2013
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