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Air Canada has increased its airlift between Toronto and Bermuda as the island hosts the Canadian Construction Association annual conference.
About 700 people are expected to fly to the island for the conference, which will run from today to March 28...
DATE: Mar 23, 2019
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The Leader of the Opposition in the Senate said the Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney-General had made a “mockery” of the Budget debate process.
Nick Kempe of the One Bermuda Alliance explained that the Opposition allotted two hours for debate o...
DATE: Mar 23, 2019
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A man accused of a sex assault on a woman has been acquitted in the Supreme Court.
The 20-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, walked free from court after the jury was ordered by acting puisne judge Craig Attridge to deliver a forma...
DATE: Mar 22, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A demand to find out how much cash raised by the controversial sugar tax had been used to boost health was made yesterday.
The One Bermuda Alliance said it wanted details of where the $700,000 in extra cash raised since last year from the tax had gon...
DATE: Mar 21, 2019
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A woman was accused yesterday of handling a shotgun, a revolver and almost 500 rounds of ammunition
Tonae Perinchief-Leader, 29, was charged in Magistrates’ Court with four offences, all alleged to have taken place in Sandys on July 6, 2015.
The char...
DATE: Mar 20, 2019
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Court
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
An historic theatrical group from Boston’s Harvard University is to return to the Bermuda stage tomorrow — with women in the cast for the first time.
Hasty Pudding Theatricals will showcase their new show, France France Revolution, which has broken a...
DATE: Mar 19, 2019
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A grey seal — the first of its kind found in Bermuda — was rescued yesterday after it was spotted by a fisherman.
Patrick Talbot, curator at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo, said: “It’s extremely rare.
“We really don’t have the food sources to f...
DATE: Mar 19, 2019
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Environment
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Airport Authority will upgrade the island’s weather radar system in time for the next hurricane season — but the work will result in a three month outage.
The authority will begin to dismantle the existing system on March 31, but the Berm...
DATE: Mar 19, 2019
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The last resting place of a US World War Two bomber that crashed into the sea moments after take-off from Bermuda has been found by a research team.
The B-24 plummeted into Castle Harbour moments after it took off from the airport, then Kindley Field...
DATE: Mar 15, 2019
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The Premier shouldered the blame yesterday for a deleted paragraph in a document that triggered Bermuda’s inclusion on an EU blacklist of noncooperative jurisdictions branded tax havens.
David Burt told the House of Assembly: “This issue is one for w...
DATE: Mar 14, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes