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One of Bermuda’s star musicians who performed in what was dubbed “Bermuda’s answer to the Beatles” has died.
Howard “Howie” Rego, a gifted drummer, was 69.
Rego’s music career took him from being a teen heart-throb to working with Sly and the Family ...
DATE: May 18, 2019
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“For many, in Bermuda, you are one paycheque from being homeless and one hustle away from being rich.”
Gritty truth-telling will be on display tomorrow with the premiere of the first two episodes of Bermudian Hafiz Dill’s web series, Hustlerz Paradis...
DATE: Mar 15, 2019
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The grave of a survivor of the 1609 wreck of the Sea Venture in Bermuda may have been discovered in Virginia, archaeologists have said.
The last resting place of Sir George Yeardley is believed to have been found in what was the main church in Bermud...
DATE: Jul 26, 2018
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A spokesperson from Two Words and a Comma remarks, “Many Bermudians now call Canada their home, where same-gender marriage is recognised. We’d love for them to come home one day to a Bermuda that recognises their love and commitment currently reserve...
DATE: Jun 30, 2014
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A petition for Bermuda residents has been launched to protest the kidnapping of almost 300 schoolgirls in northeastern Nigeria by the terror group Boko Haram.
Amnesty International (Bermuda), the The Bermuda Union of Teachers and Imagine Bermuda have...
DATE: May 19, 2014
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Part of Bermuda’s national park system, St David’s Battery on St David’s Island, in St George’s was built in the first decade of the last century with a pair of six-inch and two 9.2-inch rifled breech loaders which can still be seen at the site. The ...
DATE: Jan 30, 2014
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World Human Rights Day was celebrated at Bermuda High School for Girls yesterday with a special presentation by first-year International Baccalaureate students to an assembly of the senior school.
Speaking, ironically, as the world watched a memorial...
DATE: Dec 11, 2013
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Education
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Government Conservation officers are considering trapping and relocating two Snowy Owls and possibly a third that have been seen in Bermuda over the past week.
Killing the non-native accidental visit predator birds has been ruled out. In 1987, a Snow...
DATE: Dec 02, 2013
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World-renowned conservationist and ornithologist David Wingate issued an urgent appeal to boaters to avoid two maritime buoys to help save an endangered endemic subspecies.
Although the Common Tern is found worldwide, extensive research and DNA testi...
DATE: Jul 30, 2013
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Environment
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Patrick Burgess
Nigel Mansell, the 1992 World Champion driver, watched his son Greg earn third place for Jersey in the Island Games cycling criterium in Hamilton last night.
And he heaped praise on the Games’ organisers and Bermuda for its hospitality before admitti...
DATE: Jul 19, 2013
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