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It was a classic Bermuda Day moment: a tiny majorette, decked out in turquoise and sparkling silver, stepped back from her fellow baton twirlers on Front Street and proceeded to perform her own un-choreographed moves. The little girl, who looked to b...
DATE: May 25, 2007
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Last year he was banned from the May 24 parade but yesterday the Island’s best-known drag queen walked the streets of Hamilton with pride as an official part of the Bermuda Day celebrations.
Mark Anderson, the self-styled Queen of Bermuda who goes by...
DATE: May 25, 2007
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A man dubbed the Human Calculator has been meeting schoolchildren and teachers all over the Island this week to get them excited about mathematics.
Mike Byster, a former US commodities trader believed to have one of the fastest brains on the planet, ...
DATE: May 23, 2007
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Industrial action by garbage collectors which has led to trash piling up in the West End has ended — but it remained unclear last night when the rubbish would be collected.
Bermuda Industrial Union organiser Graham Nesbitt told The Royal Gazette that...
DATE: May 22, 2007
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A new nine-storey hotel due to be built on the Par-la-Ville car park site in Hamilton is not certain to be a Ritz-Carlton, the world famous chain said last night.
Planning documents for the multi-million dollar scheme — which was granted a special de...
DATE: May 22, 2007
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Taxi drivers in Bermuda need their own commission like their counterparts in New York, a meeting heard last night.
Cabbie William Glenn Tucker said at the packed gathering at Cathedral Hall in Hamilton that taxi drivers were “tired of being treated l...
DATE: May 22, 2007
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Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons is calling on Government to fulfil its promise to release in full a damning report on the Island’s public schools.
Education Minister Randy Horton has promised that the document — penned by UK professor David H...
DATE: May 22, 2007
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Grant Gibbons is clearly, like all of the Island’s politicians, in election mode right now. Newly appointed as Shadow Education Minister, he has a lot to say about how he would improve Bermuda’s in-crisis public school system — and plenty of blame to...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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Bermuda's largest travel agency will next week seek to persuade bosses at budget airline Zoom to start operating flights to the Island from Canada.
Carl Paiva, chief executive officer of C-Travel, is heading to Ottawa on Monday for talks with executi...
DATE: May 18, 2007
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Bermudian schoolchildren will get the chance to meet a former commodities trader described as having one of the quickest mathematical brains on the planet next week.
Students at Berkeley Institute, CedarBridge Academy, Clearwater Middle School, Harri...
DATE: May 18, 2007
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