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Chaka Khan, the “Queen of Funk”, and Grammy-winning jazz vocal group The Manhattan Transfer will star at the 2019 Bermuda Festival.
Festival executive director T.J. Armand said Chaka Khan, whose well-known hits include I’m Every Woman, was the perfec...
DATE: Sep 06, 2018
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The Regulatory Authority has asked the public for input on what should be the service standard for energy providers.
Drafts of the Service Standards have been published online to help the public have a “meaningful role” in the process.
Aaron Smith, R...
DATE: Sep 06, 2018
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A Bermudian Olympic long jump hero struck gold when he made a surprise proposal to his girlfriend at a major athletics competition in Switzerland.
Tyrone Smith popped the question to Sandi Morris, who won silver for the United States in the pole vaul...
DATE: Sep 05, 2018
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Four people charged in connection with a failed hotel development on Hamilton’s Par-la-Ville car park are scheduled to return to Supreme Court next month.
Michael MacLean, who planned to build the hotel, appeared in Supreme Court yesterday along with...
DATE: Sep 05, 2018
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A construction firm was charged today with breaches of the Health Insurance Act and false accounting.
RMS Construction, represented in Magistrates’ Court by owner Ricky Sousa, denied dishonestly making $1,100 of deductions from an employee’s pay by f...
DATE: Sep 05, 2018
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Court
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A teenager caught with counterfeit Bermuda dollar bills was given a conditional discharge so he can take a training programme overseas.
Magistrates’ Court heard on Thursday that Kyari Flood was the pillion passenger of a motorcycle that was stopped b...
DATE: Sep 04, 2018
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Court
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
When Rhea Gibbons returned to Bermuda for the summer she felt she had work to do.
Now she, with the assistance of other volunteers, has cleared more than a tonne of trash from the island’s coastline in a series of cleanups.
Ms Gibbons said: “It was s...
DATE: Sep 01, 2018
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A group of comedians are to aim for the heart with a special comedy fundraiser today.
Charles Doyle, the host and organiser of the show in aid of the Bermuda Heart Foundation, said that in addition to supporting a good cause, the event would give him...
DATE: Sep 01, 2018
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Sales at Dockyard’s Clocktower Mall have plummeted by up to 30 per cent after a road closure cut off access to stores, angry shopkeepers said yesterday.
The drop in business came after Dockyard operators, the West End Development Corporation, pedestr...
DATE: Sep 01, 2018
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Community groups will host a back to school event to help empower students and their families.
The Back 2 School Gathering will include a free dinner, along with a series of interactive playshops at the Bermuda College Student Hall.
Among the playsho...
DATE: Aug 31, 2018
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