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Youth poetry club ChewSLAM is hoping to take part in a Chicago poetry festival, but first they need the assistance of the public.
The club is hoping to raise $20,000 to send six competing team members and two coaches to the Brave New Voices (BNV) Poe...
DATE: Jul 15, 2013
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Two teenagers who used buckets to put out a brush fire in Pembroke have been praised for their actions by the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service.
Fire Service spokesman Lt Leonard Davis said the service received a report of a fire in the Berkeley Road a...
DATE: Jul 15, 2013
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Government has tabled amendments to give drunk drivers a guaranteed period of disqualification.
The Traffic Offences (Penalties) Amendment Act 2013 imposes an obligatory 18-month period of disqualification on the first offence of driving while impair...
DATE: Jul 15, 2013
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A Bermudian college student has been jailed after he admitted importing two BB guns.
Shaquille Crockwell, 21, from Rock Lane West, Hamilton Parish, pleaded guilty yesterday to importing the prohibited weapons on April 22.
Magistrates’ Court heard tha...
DATE: Jul 13, 2013
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A group of Bermuda hospitality students received a leg-up from Royal Caribbean International this week.
Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell presented seven students with RCI Hospitality Awards during a ceremony on board the Celebrity Cruise Line’s MV Su...
DATE: Jul 13, 2013
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The Rainbow Alliance have disputed a claim by Opposition Leader Marc Bean that gay marriage would lead to moral disruption.
However, the group agreed with Mr Bean’s assertion that same sex marriage is inevitable — something the Opposition Leader desc...
DATE: Jul 13, 2013
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The Opposition benches went on the attack in the House of Assembly last night, criticising Government for a series of controversial, headline-making decisions in the past week.
Shadow Attorney General Kim Wilson led the offensive, questioning why Gov...
DATE: Jul 13, 2013
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A Pembroke man had to be pulled from his car by the Fire Service following a crash in Devonshire.
Emergency services responded to a reported two-vehicle collision on North Shore Road in the vicinity of Dock Hill on Thursday evening.
“There were no re...
DATE: Jul 13, 2013
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High-ranking City of Hamilton staff are headed to court to challenge the Corporation, and the Attorney General, over union recognition, The Royal Gazette understands.
The law suit, which stands to put constitutional rights against trade union legisla...
DATE: Jul 12, 2013
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A plan to tear down a historic former brothel and replace it with a residential building has drawn the ire of conservation groups.
The Bermuda National Trust (BNT) and Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce (BEST) have both filed objections a...
DATE: Jul 12, 2013
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