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A drive to double the number of African-American tourists by 2025 has been launched.
Kevin Dallas, the chief executive of the Bermuda Tourism Authority, said that while 182,439 people flew to the island in 2017 only 7,298, about four per cent, self-i...
DATE: May 06, 2019
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Sport in Bermuda is to be promoted as part of a drive to boost tourism in the winter months.
The Bermuda Tourism Authority said it was working to bring sports conferences and team-training trips to the island, as well as international events.
Victori...
DATE: May 04, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Action must be taken to ensure that working Bermudians can live with dignity, panellists at a public forum on a living wage have said.
Rolfe Commissiong, chairman of the Joint Select Committee on the Establishment of a Living/Minimum Wage, told the d...
DATE: May 04, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Azores’ representative to its diaspora was welcomed to Bermuda this week as celebrations of the anniversary of the first Portuguese immigrants continue.
Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport, met Paulo Teves, the dire...
DATE: May 04, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Walkers in the annual End-to-End will enjoy a string of improvements to the Railway Trail sections of the route tomorrow.
Friends of the Bermuda Railway Trail, in partnership with the Parks Department and D&J Excavating, have carried out work to arre...
DATE: May 03, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A flock of Bermuda kites have been selected to decorate the new LF Wade International Airport terminal as part of a competition.
Aecon and Skyport, who hosted the competition, said the 155 entries and more than 200 designs were submitted as part of t...
DATE: May 03, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda’s police helped to snare a man who raped a 15-year-old boy on a cruise ship berthed in Dockyard.
Adam Boyd, from Mississippi, has admitted the offence in a US courtroom and will be sentenced this year.
Boyd, 32, pleaded guilty to sexual abuse...
DATE: May 02, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
George Dowling III has promised fresh ideas to revitalise the town and community of St George if elected as mayor.
Mr Dowling, who will go head-to-head with Kenneth Bascome in a municipal election on May 9, said that even if the Government replaced t...
DATE: May 02, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Millions of tennis fans around the world will get an introduction to Bermuda this summer when the island sponsors the US Open Tennis Championships, it was revealed yesterday.
The Bermuda Tourism Authority has been unveiled as the exclusive tourism sp...
DATE: May 01, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The president of the Bermuda Taxi Owners Association was banned from the roads yesterday for drink-driving.
David Frost, 69, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to a charge of driving while more than 2½ times the legal limit.
Frost admitted that he ...
DATE: Apr 30, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes