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A charity set up to care for the graves of seamen celebrated its 100th anniversary with a special service.
The Guild of the Holy Compassion marked its century with a wreath-laying ceremony off St David’s last Friday.
Derek Tully, guild secretary, sai...
DATE: Jul 31, 2018
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Sarah Lagan
A man was killed and another injured in a shooting on Court Street at about 10pm last night.
Police arrested a suspect before midnight and detained him at Hamilton Police Station.
The gunman and another person are understood to have arrived on a mo...
DATE: Jul 29, 2018
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Crime
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Sarah Lagan
A union has handed out $30,000 in education grants to a total of 12 students.
The Bermuda Public Services Union gave the awards for study in Bermuda, online and at overseas educational institutions.
The BPSU has been offering scholarships to its memb...
DATE: Jul 28, 2018
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A public register of sex offenders will take a step closer today after a special report is tabled in the House of Assembly.
The report, the result of work by a Joint Select Committee of the House, was asked to look at current legislation relating to ...
DATE: Jul 27, 2018
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Sarah Lagan
Veteran civil rights campaigner Eva Hodgson admitted that she regretted not identifying white people who are featured in her book Second Class Citizens, First Class Men, during an evening to celebrate her life and work.
The race advocate, historian ...
DATE: Jul 27, 2018
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Sarah Lagan
Two wholesalers have confirmed that they have distributed no products currently under recall due to salmonella contamination in the whey powder.
Pepperidge Farm in the United States voluntarily recalled more than three million packages of Goldfish c...
DATE: Jul 27, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Premier helped celebrate the birthday of a 102-year-old man with a special visit.
David Burt wished Brownlow Place a happy birthday on Tuesday.
Mr Burt said: “On behalf of the Government and people of Bermuda, I extend heartfelt birthday greetin...
DATE: Jul 26, 2018
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Sarah Lagan
The life and work of a veteran campaigner for civil rights is to be celebrated tomorrow.
Eva Hodgson will be honoured in the annual Dr Kenneth E. Robinson/Cyril Outerbridge Packwood Memorial lecture.
Meredith Ebbin, one of the organisers, said that D...
DATE: Jul 25, 2018
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Other
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Sarah Lagan
Lords in the UK have suggested that Britain should force Bermuda to legalise same-sex marriage in the same way it forced the island to adopt public registers.
Baroness Elizabeth Barker, a Liberal Democrat, questioned the Minister for the Overseas Te...
DATE: Jul 25, 2018
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Same-Sex Marriage
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Members of the public will retain access to a St George’s beach near a new hotel development.
The news came as the House of Assembly repealed an earlier Act to develop the new St Regis hotel in the Olde Towne, which had given “reasonable” access to F...
DATE: Jul 24, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan