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The planning department needs to do more to back “the growth of the country”, the home affairs minister has told the Development Applications Board.
The minutes of the board’s meeting last month said Walter Roban attended to discuss plans to streamli...
DATE: Aug 08, 2019
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Skyport has reached out to the public for used luggage to test baggage equipment at the new passenger terminal building.
A Skyport spokeswoman said those who donate luggage will be given “tags” for a monthly draw, with prizes to include gas vouchers,...
DATE: Aug 08, 2019
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A new $5 fee slapped on duty- free items posted to Bermuda has sparked fury.
Angry post office users said they had been hit with the fee when they collected birthday cards.
One woman wrote on the Maj’s List Facebook page that she was charged $20 to ...
DATE: Aug 07, 2019
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A Bermudian film-maker has won top honours at an international film festival in the US for a sitcom pilot with a touch of Bermuda.
Alex Scrymgeour, producer, creator and writer of Eddie’s, said he was “beyond thrilled” to take home the best pilot pr...
DATE: Aug 06, 2019
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The stocks in the Town of St George could soon have a new home.
The Corporation of St George has submitted a planning application to move the stocks, pillory and whipping post from King’s Square to nearby Ordnance island.
It is planned to set them up...
DATE: Aug 05, 2019
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Graffiti threatening to shoot police is being investigated.
The offensive graffiti appeared around Pembroke on Thursday. One example, found on Happy Valley Road, said: “Shot shot kill cops for Cup Match.”
A police spokesman said: “The offensive graff...
DATE: Aug 03, 2019
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A lighthouse keeper and a member of the public turned heroes after a man threatened to jump from the top of Gibbs Hill Lighthouse.
The two talked to the 58-year-old man until police negotiators arrived at the Southampton landmark and talked him down ...
DATE: Aug 03, 2019
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A man filmed naked on the roof of a house on the first day of Cup Match was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for assessment.
A police spokesman said that officers received a report of a man on the roof of a home in Wellington Back Road, St ...
DATE: Aug 03, 2019
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A farm at the centre of a row over foul smells and pests has been sold, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Lidia Medeiros, who ran Green Land Dairy Farm in Smiths, with husband Valter for five years, confirmed the couple had sold to the Almeida Dairy Farm...
DATE: Jul 31, 2019
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A Supreme Court judge has stood down after more than 20 years on the Bermuda bench.
Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves concluded his last case and confirmed his retirement at the sentencing of Parnell Brangman for child sex offences on Monday.
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DATE: Jul 31, 2019
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