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A Bermudian son of Portuguese immigrants who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War has died.
Ernest Abel Benevides, who lived in Canada, was 96.
Mr Benevides, whose grandfather, Manuel, brought the family to the island in 1885 a...
DATE: Nov 01, 2019
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A Bermudian son of Portuguese immigrants who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War has died.
Ernest Abel Benevides, who lived in Canada, was 96.
Mr Benevides, whose grandfather, Manuel, brought the family to the island in 1905 a...
DATE: Nov 01, 2019
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The spirit of Hallowe’en has been exorcised, a survey has revealed.
For more than half the people polled said the trick-or-treat tradition is less popular than it was when they were a child.
Fewer than one in five adults will be wearing costumes toni...
DATE: Oct 31, 2019
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A hardware store has struck a deal to renovate a Pembroke sports club, it was revealed yesterday.
Gorham’s, on St John’s Road, will improve the pitch at Western Stars Sports Club, better known as the home of football club Dandy Town, and renovate the...
DATE: Oct 31, 2019
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Hundreds of people face losing their homes through repossession by banks, a government backbencher warned last night.
Michael Scott, a lawyer and Sandys North MP, said there should be “an assessment of how many distressed properties exist in our coun...
DATE: Oct 30, 2019
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A single gunshot was reported last night in the area of Spruce Lane in Pembroke, according to police.
Officers responded to the incident, in a residential area near North Shore, at about 9.30pm.
There was no forensic evidence that a gun was discharge...
DATE: Oct 30, 2019
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Walton Brown’s unswerving commitment to Bermudian independence brought a touch of humour to the sorrow of his loss.
David Burt, the Premier, and former Progressive Labour Party minister and longstanding friend of Mr Brown’s Dale Butler told the congr...
DATE: Oct 19, 2019
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Hundreds of mourners packed the Anglican Cathedral to bid farewell yesterday to MP and former government minister Walton Brown.
The standing room-only congregation at the Hamilton church heard that Mr Brown combined a fierce commitment to social just...
DATE: Oct 19, 2019
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A grieving woman said yesterday that she still had not been given answers about her father’s death in a road crash more than a year ago.
Ciara Martin’s father, Marco Bowen, died after his motorcycle was in collision with a water truck in rush hour tr...
DATE: Oct 18, 2019
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A charity set up to feed the hungry yesterday thanked the public for its support after last month’s Hurricane Humberto knocked out power and ruined its stocks of frozen food.
The Eliza DoLittle Society was forced to shut down on a temporary basis aft...
DATE: Oct 18, 2019
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