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Anyone who has stayed in Bermuda for more than a few months knows about rock fever — but the four Uighurs who famously landed on the Island a year ago today have yet to experience it.
They laugh when The Royal Gazette asks them if they have suffered ...
DATE: Jun 11, 2010
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A sergeant major has raised thousands of dollars for charity by braving wind and rain to walk around Bermuda non-stop for 24 hours. Marilyn Steede collected $3,555 for the Salvation Army Corps with her eighth annual walkathon — and is now compiling a...
DATE: Jun 10, 2010
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The local branch of Amnesty International will launch the charity's annual report at Bermuda Bookstore tomorrow (Friday).
Executive director Lucy Attride-Stirling will be at the Queen Street store from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to talk to anyone wanting info...
DATE: Jun 10, 2010
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Bermuda's office in Washington DC is now "open for business" with a new managing director in charge.
Premier Ewart Brown announced in a statement last night that Omar McIntosh — a civil engineering graduate with 15 years experience in the commercial ...
DATE: Jun 10, 2010
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The mainstream media yesterday signed up to a "cogent, thoughtful" code of practice it said would help improve accountability and uphold the principles of press freedom.
The 25-point code — published in full in today's edition of The Royal Gazette an...
DATE: Jun 09, 2010
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The latest plan for Hamilton's waterfront has been massively scaled down from a $1 billion vision unveiled four years ago.
A public meeting last night heard that the new "preferred concept plan" would cost between $150 to $160 million and would revol...
DATE: Jun 08, 2010
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The media has today signed and adopted a
DATE: Jun 08, 2010
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Jeff Sousa stepped down as UBP chairman yesterday in order to try to become the party's election candidate for Warwick West.
Mr. Sousa is one of three approved candidates seeking adoption by the local branch of the United Bermuda Party; the others ar...
DATE: Jun 05, 2010
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Opposition MPs claim they have not had enough notice to debate two tough new bills aimed at tackling gun crime today.
But Attorney General Kim Wilson insisted last night: "We are going through extraordinary times and therefore we have to make haste."...
DATE: Jun 04, 2010
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Blue-collar jobs should be "a choice, not an inevitability" for young black Bermudian males, Labour Minister David Burch told the Senate yesterday.
He said there was a dearth of local black men in the "high echelons of the business world" and studies...
DATE: Jun 03, 2010
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