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A nine-year-old Prospect Primary student who is legally blind and losing his remaining vision has been given a new lease on life thanks to a pilot scheme launched at his school.
Brendon Fox, who started year P6 yesterday, suffers from cataracts and a...
DATE: Sep 08, 2011
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The Mirrors programme is driving to recruit seven more volunteers for Bermuda’s at-risk youth, with just a few more days to go to meet its target.
Commuters at Barnes Corner were greeted yesterday morning by a sign-carrying Mirrors team as part of a ...
DATE: Sep 07, 2011
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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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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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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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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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A 36-year-old woman stripped naked at LF Wade International Airport after she was informed that Customs officers wanted to search her, Magistrates’ Court heard.
Loukai Phillips, who was in a public area in the airport’s Customs hall at the time, toda...
DATE: Aug 22, 2011
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Bus operator Earlston Thompson continued to defy the Bermuda Industrial Union strike yesterday and drive his regular shift, saying he’d already resigned from the union.
“Reprisal is always a factor in situations like this here,” Mr Thompson said, sho...
DATE: Aug 20, 2011
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