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Political leaders past and present lined up yesterday to pay tribute to Progressive Labour Party stalwart Reginald Burrows — whose vision was to unite the island and make “Bermuda a better place”.
Family, friends and colleagues described Mr Burrows...
DATE: Nov 04, 2017
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Bermudian Zoe Kempe said yesterday that New York was carrying on as normal in the wake of Tuesday’s terror attack.
Ms Kempe vowed to continue with a cookery course in the city despite being less than two streets away from the scene of the mass killin...
DATE: Nov 03, 2017
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A CedarBridge Academy student is getting on-the-job experience thanks to a partnership between the school and the National Sports Centre.
Isaiah Smith, 16, is spending two days a week at the NSC learning skills like grounds keeping from the staff.
He...
DATE: Nov 03, 2017
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The Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre fundraiser Movember will return this month in a bid to highlight cancers affecting men that are often preventable.
Men are encouraged to grow moustaches to raise awareness and funds. Statistics have shown that men...
DATE: Nov 02, 2017
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The story of Bermuda’s 1959 theatre boycott to end segregation is in the spotlight in Bermuda and overseas thanks to author Florenz Maxwell’s book Girlcott.
Girlcott, which took second prize in Code’s 2016 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature last yea...
DATE: Nov 02, 2017
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Original Bermuda First member Cheryl Packwood criticised the formation of another committee to discuss the economy and insisted action — not more research — is long overdue.
Ms Packwood said the Bermuda First group set up in 2009 had already discusse...
DATE: Nov 01, 2017
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Politics
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Sarah Lagan
The Bermuda First committee must help the most economically vulnerable by building the island from the bottom up.
This is the view of executive director for Family Centre, Martha Dismont, who gave her approval to the revival of the group under the Pr...
DATE: Oct 30, 2017
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Sarah Lagan
The newly formed Bermuda First committee should discuss how hurricane devastation in the Caribbean can impact the island’s tourism and reinsurance industries, according to former chairman Don Kramer.
Reacting to the reformation of the group he chaire...
DATE: Oct 30, 2017
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Sarah Lagan
A 30-year-old Pembroke man who was injured in a collision on October 14 remains in a stable condition in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
He was injured when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a car around 12.10am Saturday, October 14. at...
DATE: Oct 27, 2017
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Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute is to pull out all the stops for an extra spooky Hallowe’en.
Highlights of tomorrow’s event include a ghost train, an “enchanted dive”, a scavenger hunt, games, arts and a buccaneer bake sale.
A costume parade...
DATE: Oct 27, 2017
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