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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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A task force to tackle the issue of vagrancy on the Island has been formed, according to the City of Hamilton.
Deputy Mayor Donal Smith said that around 30 people, representing groups including Government, the Police Service, the Mid-Atlantic Wellnes...
DATE: Jul 11, 2013
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The City of Hamilton is to host a cocktail party in town tonight, but two further events have been cancelled due to a lack of interest.
The ‘Tales of Cocktails: Island Cocktails’ event was intended to be a fun opportunity for residents and visitors t...
DATE: Jul 11, 2013
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Reid Street stinks, and at least one local businessman has had enough.
Robin Gilbert, who owns a store in Washington Mall, raised the issue during a public meeting with the Corporation of Hamilton, yesterday.
Mr Gilbert urged the city to make tacklin...
DATE: Jul 11, 2013
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Marine Police are getting a new home, in Dockyard.
Having recently moved out of their Barr’s Bay Park home in Hamilton, the force are to be relocated to a listed building on Sally Port Lane.
According to planning documents, the Development Applicati...
DATE: Jul 10, 2013
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The Ministry of Home Affairs is in the final stages of consultation about new methods to prevent work permit violations.
The announcement comes less than a week after the Grotto Bay Resort was fined a total of $8,000 for two counts of unlawfully empl...
DATE: Jul 10, 2013
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A pair of Knowledge Quest graduates have now been appointed directors of the education scholarship charity.
Newly named directors Eneye Jatto and Kerry Fletcher have worked with the charity for the last six years, and are the first graduates to be ap...
DATE: Jul 10, 2013
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An American tourist died on the weekend following a medical emergency at Snorkel Park in Dockyard.
Maurice Comtois, 76, was snorkelling in the area on Saturday afternoon when he became unresponsive, according to a Police spokesman.
“The American visi...
DATE: Jul 09, 2013
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A hit-and-run collision in Paget resulted in a Devonshire woman being taken to hospital.
According to a Police spokesman, at around 11.30pm on Saturday officers responded to reports of a collision at the junction of South Road and Point Finger Road.
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DATE: Jul 09, 2013
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A 58-year-old man was injured yesterday after he was trapped by machinery in an industrial accident.
Police and first responders were called to the accident near Ducks Puddle Drive in Hamilton Parish, at around 1.30pm.
A police spokesman said: “It ap...
DATE: Jul 05, 2013
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