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All five winners of the inaugural Winter Lionfish Derby have been announced and about 100 lionfish were caught in total.
As revealed in The Royal Gazette this month, Mark Outerbridge won the free diving category, bagging 53 lionfish during the three-...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
For David Lopes, livestock is a way of life and the Agricultural Exhibition has been an important part of that life since he was just a boy.
The 72-year-old dairy farmer hasn’t missed a show since he first participated in the early 1950s aside from t...
DATE: Feb 14, 2015
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
More than 500 Permanent Residence Certificate holders are still in limbo, awaiting approval for Bermudian status as Government struggles to work through a backlog of applications.
A judgment last year on the case of Carne and Correia paved the way f...
DATE: Feb 13, 2015
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Fairmont Hamilton Princess has opened the ballroom that it reserves for its most well-heeled guests to the general public to rent.
Among the distinguished guests to have frequented the ballroom include Mark Twain and Sir Winston Churchill.
The f...
DATE: Feb 12, 2015
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Zane DeSilva has commended the Bermuda Tourism Authority for being transparent after it disclosed the salaries and compensation packages of its chief staff.
However, the Shadow Minister for Tourism called for further transparency about the packages: ...
DATE: Feb 12, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Defence counsel Kae Thomas-Palacio has branded a decision to ban a pedlar and fisherman from Dockyard as “unconstitutional”.
In Magistrates’ Court this week, Mrs Thomas-Palacio was defending Buford Thomas who was found guilty of using threatening beh...
DATE: Feb 11, 2015
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A 35-year-old Bermudian serving time in Westgate has been medevaced to Lahey Clinic near Boston after suffering a stroke in his cell.
Lorenzo Lottimore was found early in the morning on January 31 after banging on his cell door to alert other inma...
DATE: Feb 10, 2015
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A peddler and fisherman has been banned from Dockyard and found guilty of threatening Wedco Chairman and former One Bermuda Alliance candidate Ray Charlton.
Buford Smith, 51, was given a 12-month conditional discharge in Magistrates’ Court for threa...
DATE: Feb 10, 2015
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
OBA MP and business owner Jeff Sousa has launched a non-political campaign to save the Agricultural Show.
He is in the process of establishing a a committee to help organise the 77th annual event for which Government cut funding this year as part of...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Bermudian Christopher Frith first became interested in filmmaking after being “blown away” by the Star Wars films and realising during the credits that people actually get paid for this line of work.
Fast forward a few years and the 23-year-old is n...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan