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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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A 17-year-old Bermudian Thurston Brevett is one of two students selected to represent the State of Delaware at the 51st annual United States Youth Program now underway in Washington, DC.
The State’s Secretary of Education cited Thurston and John Mick...
DATE: Mar 09, 2013
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Patrick Burgess
La Trattoria staff were left in shock following the sudden death of friend and colleague Mysail (Mimi) Guirigay.
Mr Guirigay was found dead by co-workers in his Paget apartment on Friday.
The 42-year-old chef leaves a wife and two children in the Phi...
DATE: Jun 11, 2012
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We need more leaks
October 23, 2011
Dear Sir,
I guess I will never understand the minds of some people and their way of thinking. Take for instance the story in The Royal Gazette last week about the leaked report concerning the lightening at Global H...
DATE: Nov 03, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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Patrick Burgess
Health Minister Zane DeSilva yesterday donated blood in a bid to draw awareness to the Bermuda Red Cross Blood Donor Centre’s drive for more donors.
Joined by his wife Joanne, Mr DeSilva went to the centre at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEMH) ...
DATE: Dec 09, 2010
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The Corporation of St. George's is likely to announce today plans to create a marina and hotel at Ordnance Island.
A press conference has been scheduled for 5 p.m. at Ordnance Island today with Leading Edge Ltd. and Bermuda Yacht Services, after mont...
DATE: Oct 13, 2010
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