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A Bermudian sailor started a race against time to get a schoolboy from one of the world’s most remote islands to a hospital for life-saving surgery, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Alex Brooks, from Pembroke, was on a round-the-world trip with his wife...
DATE: Jul 30, 2019
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Young people from 11 middle schools took to the water for the 2019 Endeavour Graduate Summer Programme regatta.
Graduates from the Endeavour Community Sailing programme sailed from the Endeavour Forts in St George’s and Dockyard to Shelly Bay, where ...
DATE: Jul 30, 2019
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The lives of those lost at sea were remembered in a ceremony off the coast of the island.
The Guild of the Holy Compassion held its annual ceremony last weekend on board the pilot boat St David, casting wreaths into the waters of Five Fathom Hole.
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DATE: Jul 29, 2019
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The owners of the former Riddell’s Bay golf course have clashed with a group opposing their plans to rezone the site.
Castile Holdings has submitted plans to break the property into 22 lots, including 18 residential lots, a nature reserve, open space...
DATE: Jul 27, 2019
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A section of a main shopping street in St George’s was open to vehicles on Monday — but the road was closed off to traffic again yesterday.
Water Street had been closed to traffic between 10am and 4pm during the summer months.
The decision garnered a...
DATE: Jul 24, 2019
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A member of Bermuda’s Youth Parliament beat an international field to win top honours at a Caribbean competition.
Halle Teart, an 18-year-old sociology and Africana studies student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, came first in a debate on t...
DATE: Jul 23, 2019
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A rare Brazilian seabird was spotted in Bermuda recently — and may have been trying to nest.
The Bermuda Audubon Society said the Trindade petrel was seen only a few feet from a footpath at Spittal Pond.
A BAS newsletter said: “Robert Branco was visi...
DATE: Jul 23, 2019
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Bermuda’s biggest thrift store has a plan to expand.
The Hospitals Auxiliary of Bermuda, which runs The Barn on Devon Spring Road, has filed a planning application to demolish the smaller of the two buildings on the Devonshire site and replace it wit...
DATE: Jul 23, 2019
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A homeowner near a former golf course where the new owners want to build 18 luxury homes said yesterday that the plan by developers was “putting up buildings for rich people and to enrich themselves”.
The objector, who asked not to be named, added th...
DATE: Jul 22, 2019
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Five prison inmates have been awarded their GEDs in a ceremony held at the Co-Educational Facility.
Daymon Simmons, Dion Cholmondeley, Detré Ford, André Richardson and Mikiel Thomas all successfully completed the GED programme.
Mr Simmons also succes...
DATE: Jul 22, 2019
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