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Senators will return to a spruced-up chamber when they get back to work after Easter, Deputy Speaker Derrick Burgess told MPs last week.
“Major work” over Christmas transformed the former Supreme Court 2 in Sessions House, with microphones installed ...
DATE: Mar 22, 2018
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Muriel Archer, a missionary who survived a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Second World War, has died aged 96.
Ms Archer smuggled bibles into countries where preaching Christianity was forbidden and was dedicated to prison teaching and fellowshi...
DATE: Mar 22, 2018
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A motorcyclist was taken to hospital today after a crash involving a van and a car.
The incident happened on North Shore Road, Pembroke, near to the First Church of God, at about noon. The van appeared to have struck the wall.
At 12.30pm, the road wa...
DATE: Mar 22, 2018
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Women are leading the charge to bridge the racial divide in Bermuda.
Lynn Winfield, president of Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, said on average three quarters of those at the group’s truth and reconciliation sessions were women.
Ms Winfield ad...
DATE: Mar 21, 2018
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An investigation has been launched into a blaze that swept across Devonshire Marsh at the weekend.
A patch at the northern verge of the marsh along Vesey Street continued to smoulder yesterday morning, despite heavy rain on Sunday.
The Bermuda Fire a...
DATE: Mar 20, 2018
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A community group braved heavy rain at the weekend to launch a commemoration of the life of Nelson Mandela, a peace activist and former president of South Africa.
The Walk Together event saw a dozen residents visit historical areas across Hamilton to...
DATE: Mar 20, 2018
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A float-building workshop for the Bermuda Day parade is to be held this weekend.
Christopher Naylor, a float expert from Sandys Middle School, will demonstrate how to build and decorate a traditional float.
Members of the public are also invited to r...
DATE: Mar 20, 2018
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The fiftieth anniversary of the Bermuda Turtle Project is to be celebrated by the Bermuda Post Office with a commemorative stamp issue on Thursday.
Four marine turtle stamps will be issued, featuring green turtles, as well as the hawksbill, loggerhea...
DATE: Mar 20, 2018
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Business owners were quick to pitch in as fire swept across Devonshire Marsh on Saturday, looming precariously close to warehouses and shops.
Winds fanned flames across the reserve and a barrage of embers and sparks kept the fire going despite firefi...
DATE: Mar 19, 2018
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Vidya Cannonier-Watson has grown, literally, by leaps and bounds.
Watching her mother, Sophia Cannonier, teach ballet classes when she was 3, Vidya, now 10, recalled: “I asked her if I could start.”
This August, she heads off to attend the Tring Park...
DATE: Mar 19, 2018
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