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Shadow Tourism Minister Michael Dunkley claimed yesterday that Government's handling of the Southlands land swap deal was the "worst example of public planning".
He said the Opposition was pleased Southlands would be preserved as a national park but ...
DATE: Sep 15, 2010
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A controversial special development order (SDO) for a five-star resort at Southlands "now falls away" thanks to the land swap deal signed this week.
Cabinet secretary Marc Telemaque told The Royal Gazette that the estate in Warwick — described by the...
DATE: Sep 15, 2010
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A 26-year-old man who harboured Facebook fugitive Alvone Maybury was jailed for three months yesterday.
Kim Knights, who hid Maybury in the wooden shed where he lives on Secret Lane, Pembroke, admitted the offence in Magistrates' Court, along with at...
DATE: Sep 14, 2010
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Government and Southlands Ltd. buried the hatchet yesterday and signed a land swap deal which will allow a $2 billion tourism resort to be built at Morgan’s Point over the next 20 years.
The agreement — which comes almost seven months after the two s...
DATE: Sep 14, 2010
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A land swap deal allowing a $2 billion luxury tourism resort to be built at Morgan’s Point was signed this afternoon — paving the way for the Southlands estate to become a national park.
Premier Ewart Brown and Works and Engineering Minister Derrick ...
DATE: Sep 13, 2010
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Mackinnon Eldridge and Tyler Smith grew up in Bermuda watching war movies together — and now the two young men are fulfilling long-held ambitions to serve in the military.
L/Cpl Eldridge, a US Marine, is likely to be deployed to Afghanistan in the ne...
DATE: Sep 08, 2010
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Homeowners interested in installing a solar water heater are being offered a rebate from the Ministry of Energy.
Energy Minister Michael Scott announced yesterday that a "significant figure" had been set aside to allow rebates of up to $1,500. A resi...
DATE: Sep 03, 2010
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Critics of plans to build a concrete pool at the National Sports Centre (NSC) are basing their objections on "incomplete and unsubstantiated" information, it has been claimed.
Sean Tucker, chairman of the NSC's board of trustees, told The Royal Gazet...
DATE: Sep 03, 2010
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This weekend's weather may not be a washout, according to the experts — even though there are three tropical systems in the Atlantic.
Bermuda Weather Service forecaster Nick Camizzi told The Royal Gazette last night that Tropical Storm Fiona — the on...
DATE: Sep 02, 2010
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Two street cars in Toronto have been given a bright pink Bermuda makeover to encourage Canadian tourists to come to the Island.
The vehicles will be stationed in the city from this month to November as part of a Department of Tourism campaign to incr...
DATE: Sep 02, 2010
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