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The Bermuda Health Council has asked people for “innovative solutions” to help fight against serious diseases.
The Council is developing a Chronic Disease Innovation Programme, which will fund initiatives to address high rates of non-communicable chr...
DATE: Aug 07, 2019
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Health
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda will generate a total of $14 million from MS Amlin World Triathlon Bermuda this year.
Financial services firm PwC said the island’s economy received a $4.7 million boost from the April event and it predicted another $9.3 million will come fro...
DATE: Aug 06, 2019
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Bermudian film-maker has won top honours at an international film festival in the US for a sitcom pilot with a touch of Bermuda.
Alex Scrymgeour, producer, creator and writer of Eddie’s, said he was “beyond thrilled” to take home the best pilot pr...
DATE: Aug 06, 2019
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The trial of two people accused of a murder 13 years ago was adjourned yesterday and the jury released.
Cleveland Rogers, 52, and Katrina Burgess, 48, have denied the premeditated murder of Marcus Gibbings in 2006.
Mr Gibbings, originally from Trinid...
DATE: Aug 06, 2019
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Court
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Tourism Authority will unveil a new cultural tourism programme at a public stakeholder meeting tomorrow.
A BTA spokeswoman said the programme would put a spotlight on the island’s diverse cultural tourism attractions including its distinc...
DATE: Aug 06, 2019
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The stocks in the Town of St George could soon have a new home.
The Corporation of St George has submitted a planning application to move the stocks, pillory and whipping post from King’s Square to nearby Ordnance island.
It is planned to set them up...
DATE: Aug 05, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Graffiti threatening to shoot police is being investigated.
The offensive graffiti appeared around Pembroke on Thursday. One example, found on Happy Valley Road, said: “Shot shot kill cops for Cup Match.”
A police spokesman said: “The offensive graff...
DATE: Aug 03, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A lighthouse keeper and a member of the public turned heroes after a man threatened to jump from the top of Gibbs Hill Lighthouse.
The two talked to the 58-year-old man until police negotiators arrived at the Southampton landmark and talked him down ...
DATE: Aug 03, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man filmed naked on the roof of a house on the first day of Cup Match was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for assessment.
A police spokesman said that officers received a report of a man on the roof of a home in Wellington Back Road, St ...
DATE: Aug 03, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A farm at the centre of a row over foul smells and pests has been sold, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Lidia Medeiros, who ran Green Land Dairy Farm in Smiths, with husband Valter for five years, confirmed the couple had sold to the Almeida Dairy Farm...
DATE: Jul 31, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes