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The future of the lease for the Sandys property on which the resort 9 Beaches sits is in question, with a spokesman for landlords Bermuda Land Development Corporation (BLDC) stating: “Currently the BLDC board has taken this matter under legal advisem...
DATE: Mar 10, 2015
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Avid amateur bird watcher Scott Neil made a rare sighting of a swallow-tailed kite yesterday.
Mr Neil reported seeing it while out on a run in the area. He said: “Just saw a swallow-tailed kite at Wyndham Hill, near Harrington Sound — very large and ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2015
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A Nassau grouper preying on and eating a lionfish off Little Cayman was captured on camera for probably the first time, according to Hollywood screenwriter and producer James Hart of the non-profit organisation Lionfish University.
The recording, mad...
DATE: Mar 06, 2015
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The threat of measles is over for one family whose nursery school-aged child had been in quarantine, along with his mother, for eight days while awaiting blood test results.
Last night, a Government spokesperson said that tests for the first two susp...
DATE: Mar 05, 2015
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The half-century old trees growing in the median of Ewing Street received a high tech boost yesterday.
Horticultural workers from Horsfield Landscaping and Design Ltd started the process of installing Silva Cells in the ground beside them.
Albert Key...
DATE: Mar 04, 2015
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The appointment of Gitanjali Gutiérrez to the $180,000-a-year role as Bermuda’s first Information Commissioner begins “a seismic shift”, as former Premier Paula Cox described the legislation creating the position in 2011.
However, it has been a five-...
DATE: Mar 04, 2015
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A man who drives a specially equipped car to transport his wheelchair-using daughter says unauthorised vehicles are occupying parking spots in Hamilton reserved for those with a PC licence plate or displaying their disabled permit.
David Chew wants t...
DATE: Mar 03, 2015
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Gale-force winds, sometimes becoming as strong as storm force, hit Bermuda nine times during a four-week period in January and February — and the heavy weather is not over yet.
Meteorologist Jeff Torgerson at the Bermuda Weather Service (BWS) said th...
DATE: Mar 02, 2015
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Progressive Labour Party MP Walter Roban criticised the ruling One Bermuda Alliance party for “beating up” on the Civil Service in the House of Assembly on Friday night.
Mr Roban added: “How do you work for people who do not actually value you?”
Spe...
DATE: Mar 02, 2015
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The Women’s Resource Centre will transfer its sexual assault hotline and response service to the Centre Against Abuse.
The charities said yesterday that they had revamped their services and programmes in response to community needs and cost-efficien...
DATE: Feb 27, 2015
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