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A Warwick Academy pupil has been named number one after a gruelling test of maths skills.
Anna Francoeur, aged 11, came out on top and scooped the $2000 top prize after 220 schoolchildren took part in the competition, the tenth of its kind.
One of th...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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Three people and a dog rescued from stormy seas are en route to Bermuda after a tanker spotted them on a liferaft.
The English couple, a Belgian and a Jack Russel terrier were plucked from the seas after their yacht sank in stormy weather while on it...
DATE: Apr 26, 2014
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A top hospitals official has quit her job after being cleared of wrongdoing following a year-long probe.
Delia Basden — who was relieved of her duties as chief financial officer at the Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) last February — was found to have “...
DATE: Apr 26, 2014
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Hundreds of tourists and Islanders yesterday packed historic King’s Square in St George for the annual Peppercorn ceremony.
And Bermuda put its best foot forward with the Bermuda Regiment Band and Corps of Drums and Guard of Honour adding a dash of m...
DATE: Apr 24, 2014
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The son of a well-known Bermuda arts figure has died in the US.
Neil Gibson, son of actress, producer and director Elsbeth Gibson, died in February.
Mr Gibson, who lived in Bermuda as a child and attended the Whitney Institute, was a regular visitor ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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Bermuda is in the middle of a sexual misconduct crisis, an expert said yesterday.
And Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) executive director Patrice Frith-Hayward said young men needed to be taught the limits of acceptable behaviour.
“There is a sexual mis...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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A woman who escaped a fireball explosion that wrecked her home said she was lucky to be alive.
Ms Antoinette Sheppard, 53, suffered only minor injuries, despite an explosion that wrecked her apartment at the rear of a house on Pembroke’s Railway Terr...
DATE: Apr 22, 2014
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The US Consulate will tomorrow screen two environmental documentaries as part of the annual Earth Day celebrations.
The first features a park in Cairo, one of the most populated cities in the world, which was created out of a 500-year-old dump and th...
DATE: Apr 22, 2014
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An eight-year-old boy escaped serious injury after he was hit by a car at a pedestrian crossing.
The schoolboy, who has not been named, was using the crossing at Crow Lane, near its junction with Corkscrew Hill, when the accident happened around 4.15...
DATE: Apr 22, 2014
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CCTV cameras in crime hot spots were put out of order this week because the power supply had been cut off.
New provider BAS Serco — which won the contract, worth $6.3 million of public money — did not return calls about the latest problem to hit the ...
DATE: Apr 19, 2014
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