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Visitor air arrivals increased by more than 10 per cent in the first half of the year, according to the Bermuda Tourism Authority.
Figures released yesterday show a total of 201,084 visitors came to the island between April and June this year, compar...
DATE: Aug 10, 2016
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Tourism
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda is set to be the hub of a new international research project intended to justify the protection of marine environments worldwide.
The project, called Ocean Tech, is set to launch next spring taking advantage of the Woods Hole Oceanographic In...
DATE: Aug 09, 2016
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A newly released United Nations-funded report has looked into the possibility of naming high seas locations — including the Sargasso Sea — as new World Heritage sites.
The report, titled World Heritage in the High Seas: An Idea Whose Time has Come, ...
DATE: Aug 08, 2016
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Khyber Pass man has been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Travis Lowe.
Kethyio Whitehurst, 20, was not required to plead when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court today, as the matter must be heard by Supreme Court.
He was rel...
DATE: Aug 08, 2016
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Court
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
An American citizen has been remanded into custody after being charged in Magistrates’ Court with money laundering.
Zoe Bennett, 24, from New York, faces a single charge of possessing $40,870 American and $100 Canadian representing the proceeds of cr...
DATE: Aug 08, 2016
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Designs for the highly anticipated St Regis hotel in the East End are now before the Department of Planning.
Building the 122-key St George’s resort is expected to take three years, as part of the development’s first phase.
Assuming that a licence is...
DATE: Aug 06, 2016
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A businessman has been ordered to repay a former employee for the cost of health insurance deductions that were not put towards health insurance.
Brandon Thompson had launched a legal suit against Harold Darrell seeking $10,321, the bulk of which rep...
DATE: Aug 05, 2016
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Other
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
An endangered turtle rescued by fisherman off North Shore with a rusting hook caught in its trachea has left the island’s waters and is now swimming towards the Bahamas.
The loggerhead turtle, named Daisy, was first brought to the Bermuda Aquarium Mu...
DATE: Aug 04, 2016
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man jailed for a home invasion in which he accidentally shot his partner in crime has lost an appeal against his conviction.
Josef Smith, 28, was found guilty last year of aggravated burglary and discharging a firearm in connection to an incident i...
DATE: Aug 04, 2016
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
More must be done to ensure single mothers can secure a living wage, according to Kelly Hunt of the Coalition for the Protection of Children.
During the first of a series of public meetings organised by the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Wom...
DATE: Aug 04, 2016
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes