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A woman described yesterday how a night out turned to tragedy when her friend was killed in a road traffic collision four years ago.
Jada Simmons-Trott told the Supreme Court that she was travelling in front of 19-year-old Jen-Naya Simmons with Ms Si...
DATE: Jun 15, 2022
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Environmental groups have voiced reservations about recently passed legislation to allow three-wheeler tours amid concerns about their access to the island’s parks.
The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce and the Bermuda Audubon Society sa...
DATE: Jun 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A company has been applauded for answering the call for blood donations as it won the ninth annual corporate blood drive competition.
A Bermuda Hospitals Board spokeswoman said Butterfield and Vallis beat 14 other local businesses which took part in ...
DATE: Jun 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The upper veranda of the historic Commissioner’s House in Dockyard has been reopened to the public after six months of restoration work.
Work on the almost 200-year-old building — a part of the National Museum of Bermuda — was required to address rus...
DATE: Jun 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man is in hospital after he was stabbed in a fight in Hamilton early on Saturday morning.
A police spokesman said that at 2.50am, police responded to a report of a fight in the area of Court Street and Elliot Street involving “a number of persons”....
DATE: Jun 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A former Royal Gazette journalist was saluted by the Royal Bermuda Regiment for ten years of dedicated service.
Sergeant Raymond Hainey enlisted in the RBR in 2012 after previously serving with Britain’s Royal Naval Reserve from 1982 to 1984.
Lieuten...
DATE: Jun 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A ruling that a warehouse worker was unfairly dismissed two days after his probation period had ended has been overturned.
While the Employment Tribunal found last year that Gorham’s owed David Robinson almost $19,000 for wrongful termination after h...
DATE: Jun 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A marquee 40ft-by-5ft Bermuda sign is set to be erected in Hamilton in an effort to create photographic opportunities for visitors.
According to a recently filed planning application, the sign would be installed on a cycle parking area adjacent to th...
DATE: Jun 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Charles Jeffers II, CEO of the Bermuda Tourism Authority, has left the BTA after just over a year in the post, it was announced yesterday.
A statement from a BTA spokeswoman said that Tracy Berkeley, the body’s chief administration officer, has been ...
DATE: Jun 11, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A senior who escaped after an explosion destroyed his house has described being plunged into darkness as his wall and ceiling collapsed around him.
But Stanley Thompson, 82, who was released from hospital yesterday more than a month after the inciden...
DATE: Jun 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes