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Two months ago they were languishing in the world's most notorious detention camp — but now Bermuda's Uighurs are tending the lush green fairways of a golf course with spectacular ocean views.
The former Guantánamo Bay terror suspects have been given...
DATE: Aug 05, 2009
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A 14-year-old schoolgirl will be sentenced at Juvenile Court next month after admitting attacking another teenager at Hamilton bus terminal.
The youngster, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was due to stand trial after she initially denied unlaw...
DATE: Aug 04, 2009
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Police have urged Bermuda's citizens to help stop the "madness" after a bottle and chair fight involving up to 30 men broke out at Cup Match, leaving one innocent woman injured.
As many as five Police officers were attacked during the conflict in the...
DATE: Aug 03, 2009
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A 33-year-old Irishman became Bermuda's tenth road fatality of 2009 during the Cup Match weekend.
James Quinn, who worked at Deloitte, suffered serious head injuries after crashing his motorcycle on Crow Lane in the early hours of Saturday.
Police sa...
DATE: Aug 03, 2009
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Public school principals have resolved their differences with the Ministry of Education over the way a head teacher was ordered to leave her school at short notice.
The Association of School Principals (ASP) filed a complaint against the commissioner...
DATE: Aug 03, 2009
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Four hundred years ago, there would have been little to welcome the exhausted survivors of the Sea Venture to Bermuda aside from a storm-tossed beach, the screeching of the cahow and perhaps a wild hog or two.
But yesterday, as their historic journey...
DATE: Jul 29, 2009
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New head teachers are needed to run three public schools — but appointments have yet to be made with little more than a month to go before term begins.
Teachers, parents and students are in the dark about who will be in charge at Paget, West Pembroke...
DATE: Jul 28, 2009
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British Airways has announced new opening hours for its airport ticket office.
From this Saturday (August 1), the office will open seven days a week from 5.30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The airline — which operates a Boeing 777 aircraft to and from London seven ...
DATE: Jul 27, 2009
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The four Guantánamo Bay Uighurs are unlikely to ever gain Bermudian status even if the UK lets them stay here, according to Attorney General Kim Wilson.
Senator Wilson told The Royal Gazette she believes the men were lawfully brought to the Island an...
DATE: Jul 27, 2009
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A British politician who has campaigned against conscription into the Bermuda Regiment will quit Westminster at the next election.
Labour MP Andrew MacKinlay said on Friday he was resigning because of the UK Parliament's failure to stop a Brit from b...
DATE: Jul 27, 2009
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