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Bermuda birdwatchers have this week confirmed a sighting of a common raven on the Island for the first time.
Conservationist David Wingate said the bird was first reported by David Barber, who spotted it on January 1 and again on January 6. The sight...
DATE: Jan 29, 2014
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A witness described seeing a gunman open fire on Reid Street as the trial of three men accused of attempted murder continued yesterday.
Devon Hewey, 25, Cervio Cox, 30, both from Warwick, and Julian Washington, 24, from Pembroke, all deny two charges...
DATE: Jan 29, 2014
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Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell has detailed a recent trip to Singapore to look into how they have implemented gaming.
In a statement, Mr Crockwell said that he, Minister of Legal Affairs Mark Pettingill and a technical officer met with Singapore’s ...
DATE: Jan 28, 2014
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The cause of death for a snowy owl blown to the Island last year is still unknown after an inconclusive autopsy.
Conservationist David Wingate said he had suspected the bird may have been killed by secondary poisoning — eating a rat which had itself ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2014
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Craig Cannonier will be travelling to New York next week to meet with cruise line officials, along with representatives for both the US and the UK.
The Premier will be joined on the trip by Cabinet Secretary Derrick Binns and representative of the Go...
DATE: Jan 25, 2014
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Doris Cholmondeley Webster, a Founding member of the Bermuda Industrial Union, has died at the age of 105.
Mrs Webster was born in 1909, the daughter of Henry and Mary Douglas.
While she was forced to give up on education at the age of 15 when her f...
DATE: Jan 25, 2014
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Government should not cut their funding of charities as they attempt to balance the budget, according to Bermuda Sloop Foundation CEO Denise Riviere.
Ms Riviere insists Government’s investments in charities pays off in the long run by offering valuab...
DATE: Jan 24, 2014
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A Sandys man was yesterday convicted of sexually touching and invading the privacy of a young girl when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court.
However, the defendant, 39 year-old Shuja Amon Muhammad was found not guilty of a second count of sexually touc...
DATE: Jan 24, 2014
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The Department of Public Transportation have received the first three of sixteen new buses, but they are slightly too wide for the current limit.
A Department spokesman confirmed yesterday that while the current width limit for buses is set at 2.3m, ...
DATE: Jan 24, 2014
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The West Indian Association (Bermuda) are planning a series of fundraising events to help those affected by flooding in the West Indies.
Association president Chandra Persad, said that St Vincent and The Grenadines and St Lucia were both devastated b...
DATE: Jan 24, 2014
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