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Three men pleaded not guilty yesterday to a New Year’s Day robbery in the car park of the Fairmont Southampton hotel.
Kyari Flood, 18, from Devonshire, Zachary Fox, 19, and Jason Symonds, 18, both from Pembroke, denied the theft of a portable speaker...
DATE: Jan 05, 2018
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Local artists are to get the chance to showcase their talents to international music industry professionals.
A handful of local artists have been selected to perform in front of Shanti Das, the founder of the Hip Hop Professional Foundation, Anthony ...
DATE: Jan 04, 2018
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Magistrates’ Court was today evacuated after a fire alarm went off.
Court proceedings were halted for about 15 minutes as court staff and members of the public were ordered out into Court Street.
Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service firefighters arrived j...
DATE: Jan 04, 2018
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The winners of the island’s first national coding competition have been announced.
CedarBridge Academy pupil Bishop Zanders won the secondary school category after he used computer code Python to programme an answer to a given scenario.
Saltus pupil...
DATE: Jan 03, 2018
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Bermuda’s soldiers are set to get more engineering training as the Royal Bermuda Regiment expands from its traditional role as a light infantry force.
The change means recruits could learn to operate heavy equipment such as bulldozers, excavators and...
DATE: Dec 30, 2017
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John Rankin, the Governor of Bermuda, is taking legal advice on giving assent to a controversial Bill designed to replace same-sex marriage with “watered-down” domestic partnerships.
Government House confirmed the Governor had asked for legal opinion...
DATE: Dec 30, 2017
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Sarah Lagan
The death toll on Bermuda’s roads in 2017 is one of the worst in recent years.
Fifteen lives have been lost, with drink-driving, speeding, dangerous driving and inattention listed as leading factors.
This year’s figure was exceeded in the past 17 yea...
DATE: Dec 30, 2017
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The family of former commissioner of police Jean-Jacques Lemay has thanked Bermuda for its support after he was killed in a road accident in Canada earlier this month.
Marc Morabito, a friend of the family, said “The family is grateful for the messag...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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Census results for 2016 are to be examined by Cabinet in the new year.
The census, which gathered a range of statistics on the island’s population, was completed between May 2016 and last March.
Government said the survey had a 95 per cent response r...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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A would-be Christmas Eve robber armed with a saw blade fled empty-handed after a supermarket cashier refused to hand over cash.
A senior staff member at Arnold’s in St John’s Road, Pembroke, said yesterday: “Our butcher was talking to a customer at t...
DATE: Dec 28, 2017
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Crime
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Sarah Lagan