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Warwick Academy officially broke ground today on what will become the new McCorkell Student Commons.
The facility will be named after outgoing principal Maggie McCorkell, who will be retiring at the end of this school year after 27 years.
Colin Smith...
DATE: Apr 18, 2016
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A man jailed for a plot to import $6 million of cannabis to Bermuda has lost an appeal against his conviction.
George Virgil was found guilty last year of conspiring to import 263lbs of the controlled drug, and was subsequently sentenced to ten years...
DATE: Apr 16, 2016
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A meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday was called off after all four One Bermuda Alliance members failed to attend, leaving the committee without a quorum.
Financial secretary Anthony Manders, who had been summoned to attend the m...
DATE: Apr 15, 2016
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A plan to erect a Bailey bridge over the St George’s swing bridge has been abandoned in favour of strengthening the bridge from below.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Public Works said work on a full-scale remediation for the bridge had already beg...
DATE: Apr 15, 2016
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Bob Richards said a summons issued by Public Accounts Committee chairman David Burt to bring the financial secretary before the committee was not legally valid.
Mr Burt, however, insisted that the summons was valid and Mr Richard’s claim was “idiotic...
DATE: Apr 15, 2016
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A man who famously attempted to “run” from Florida to Bermuda in an inflatable bubble is planning a second attempt.
Reza Baluchi, who resided in Pompano Beach, Florida, made headlines in 2014 when he was rescued around 70 miles off the US coast in hi...
DATE: Apr 14, 2016
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An influenza strain associated with swine flu could be circulating around the island, according to the Ministry of Health.
However, a spokeswoman said the H1N1 virus was included in the available seasonal flu vaccine, and the precautions for the viru...
DATE: Apr 14, 2016
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A thief jailed for eight years for a series of offences has had his sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal.
Joeshun Russell, 40, pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, obtaining property by deception, making and using a false instrument and taking a...
DATE: Apr 14, 2016
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Bermuda resident Alun Thomas is this week tackling the challenge of a lifetime — the brutal Marathon des Sables in the Saharan desert.
The race, which began 30 years ago, tasks competitors with essentially completing six marathons over the course of ...
DATE: Apr 14, 2016
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A Jamaican prisoner who was denied parole has lost an appeal after he claimed the policies were discriminatory.
Leighton Griffiths, a Jamaican national married to a Bermudian, was convicted of possessing 480.5g of cocaine with intent to supply. He wa...
DATE: Apr 13, 2016
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