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Several local youth performing arts groups have received $1,000 donations at CableVision’s annual ‘Salute to Service’ banquet.
A total of 17 organisations and groups were honoured at the banquet, including the Bermuda Institute Steel Band, the CedarB...
DATE: Jan 18, 2012
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Art, music and fine dining are the centrepiece of a new initiative by the Department of Tourism and Masterworks Museum of Art.
For the rest of this month starting today, the Museum will host an arts and culinary open house every Tuesday as part of a ...
DATE: Jan 17, 2012
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A delegation of Bermuda students will travel to Cape Town, South Africa, this week to compete in the World Schools Debate Championship.
The annual event, which will begin today, brings together students from across the world to compete and interact.
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DATE: Jan 17, 2012
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Government yesterday celebrated the success of the Small Jobs Work Programme, which found 23 unemployed Bermudians temporary work.
The programme, coordinated by the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation (BEDC), was tasked with hiring Bermudians fo...
DATE: Jan 17, 2012
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By Owain Johnston-Barnes
Less than a week after a 24-year-old man was shot dead, fewer than 20 people took part in a community march in an effort to build unity.
The march, organised by Sancia Garrison, brought participants down South Road in Warwick...
DATE: Jan 16, 2012
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Government is organising a series of town hall meetings to be held across the Island to discuss the upcoming Budget.
Three meetings are scheduled, with the first to take place at Dalton E Tucker Primary School on Wednesday, the second at the Leopard’...
DATE: Jan 16, 2012
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government is misleading the public to make the economy seem healthier than it is, according to Shadow Minister Bob Richards.
Mr Richards said that Government figures on the number of new international businesses registered on the Island were below a...
DATE: Jan 16, 2012
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A British MP has called for Bermuda and other overseas territories to be given representation in the UK House of Commons.
In a submission to the UK Parliament’s Backbench Business Committee, Andrew Rosindell said that since the UK makes decisions tha...
DATE: Jan 16, 2012
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Planning Minister Marc Bean is to represent the Island at the KPMG National Infrastructure Strategy Seminar in Miami this week.
The two-day summit, to be held this Thursday and Friday, is intended to address the issues and challenges facing island ju...
DATE: Jan 16, 2012
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A thief who fought with a tourist after being found in the guest’s hotel bedroom has been jailed for 12 months after pleading guilty to burglary.
Stanley Davis, 42, of no fixed abode, was identified by DNA on a baseball cap and sweatshirt that he lef...
DATE: Jan 16, 2012
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