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A local ghost tour has earned international press in an article detailing haunted Caribbean hotspots.
The article, published on the USA Today website, highlights the Haunted History Walking Tour in St George’s in a Hallowe’en-themed travel story.
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DATE: Oct 31, 2015
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American eels have for the first time been tracked migrating to the Sargasso Sea, off the coast of Bermuda.
According to a recent scientific article published in Nature Communications this week, Canadian researchers tagged a number of endangered Amer...
DATE: Oct 31, 2015
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The Nonsuch Island Cahow-cam is up and running again as researchers hope to capture never-before-seen courtship behaviours.
The streaming camera, which is hidden inside a man-made Cahow burrow, has previously recorded the incubation of eggs, the hatc...
DATE: Oct 31, 2015
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On this date in 1978, the British Government intended to push Bermuda towards independence, according to recently declassified documents.
A cable sent from the London Embassy to the US Secretary of State and US Consulate, dated October 30, 1978, deta...
DATE: Oct 30, 2015
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Politics
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“Unprecedented” mechanical issues have hindered trash collection across the Island according to Craig Cannonier, the Minister of Public Works, but efforts are under way to restore normal service.
He said the Bermuda Government had been working closel...
DATE: Oct 30, 2015
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Environment
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Ministry of Public Works is working to address complaints about overgrown roadsides.
While the ministry has come under fire in recent months over overgrown grass and trees on the Island’s roadsides, a spokeswoman said efforts were being made to ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2015
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Environment
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A 62-year-old man this morning admitted repeatedly breaking into the same home to steal food.
Winton Edwards pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing food items from a St Paul’s Lane home, and a third count of prowling about the same home.
The court ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2015
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Court
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda College board of governors has rejected a faculty vote of no confidence in the president of the institution.
The college’s Faculty Association sent a letter in May to the chairwoman of the board of governors, Jill Husbands, notifying her ...
DATE: Oct 29, 2015
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Education
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Warwick man who admitted grabbing a woman’s buttocks was given a suspended prison sentence in Magistrates’ Court this morning.
Kevin Mendonca, 34, pleaded guilty earlier this year to intruding on the privacy of a woman during an incident on May 29....
DATE: Oct 29, 2015
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Nursing students at the Bermuda College are getting opportunities to work with specialists from the Lahey Hospital and Medical Centre through a new partnership.
According to a college spokeswoman, representatives from Lahey collaborated with the Coll...
DATE: Oct 29, 2015
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