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More than 3,000 people have gone through training to help combat the difficult issue of child sexual abuse, according to Scars chairman Jon Brunson.
Addressing the Hamilton Rotary Club yesterday afternoon, Mr Brunson said that since 2011, around 3,21...
DATE: Sep 23, 2015
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A fight at a cricket club that attracted international attention online and resulted in two players being banned is being investigated by the Bermuda Police Service.
Jason Anderson has already received a lifetime ban from the Bermuda Cricket Board fo...
DATE: Sep 23, 2015
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Next month’s Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event will both highlight Bermuda on the world stage and introduce the series to the Island’s public.
“I think at its core this weekend is really about sport,” America’s Cup communications directo...
DATE: Sep 22, 2015
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A team of researchers has visited Bermuda to study the local dolphin population.
Dolphin Quest spokesman Jason Price said the research team included Andreas Fahalman of Texas A & M University and representatives from both the Chicago Zoological Socie...
DATE: Sep 22, 2015
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The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences has received two new grants to help support climate change research in and around the Island.
According to a BIOS spokeswoman, recent grants from the National Science Foundation will allow the restoration of th...
DATE: Sep 22, 2015
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Environment
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Mark Selley was just 38 in 1991 when he suffered a stroke and was told by a doctor he would never walk again.
Less than a year later, he was out of his wheelchair and dedicated to making sure a support system was in place in Bermuda for stroke patien...
DATE: Sep 21, 2015
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The recipe for the beloved Bermudian Dark ‘n Stormy is now at the heart of a legal action in the United States.
Gosling Brothers Ltd has filed a trademark infringement complaint in Massachusetts federal court against Pernod Chicard — the makers of Ma...
DATE: Sep 19, 2015
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Plans to build additional residential units on the Pink Beach property have been given the go-ahead despite objections.
Sardis Development Ltd had sought permission to erect ten residential units, a sewage treatment facility and parking spaces on agr...
DATE: Sep 18, 2015
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New United States Consul General Mary Ellen Koenig said she hopes to get directly involved with the Island and its people.
Speaking yesterday, she said that her new position is very different from her last post as a cultural attaché at the US embassy...
DATE: Sep 18, 2015
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The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce praised the Take Back our Parks campaign in the wake of an injunction halting construction in the Botanical Gardens.
While the Ministry of Public Works had begun work on a new maintenance yard in the...
DATE: Sep 18, 2015
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