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About 60 volunteers joined forces from various organisations on Sunday to help clean up Elbow Beach after the July 4 celebrations.
Some 70 bags of trash were collected amounting to about 1,500lbs of waste — equivalent to about a pound of waste for ea...
DATE: Jul 06, 2015
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Former Berkeley Institute acting principal Keisha Douglas has been named as the new principal of Clearwater Middle School.
The appointment is one of up to six transfers at the school including the vice principal.
The Department of Education also anno...
DATE: Jul 06, 2015
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Unionised ferry workers have hit out at Marine and Ports director Richard Russell claiming that mechanical issues with the ferries, rather than staff lateness, have accounted for an unreliable service.
Senior pilot and president of the Bermuda Indust...
DATE: Jul 04, 2015
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Determined to get more young Bermudians involved with electronics and robotics, teacher Harry Matthie has brought thousands of dollars worth of microcontrolling equipment to the Island.
Mr Matthie, who will be using the machines in classes he will be...
DATE: Jul 03, 2015
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Chairman for the Human Rights Commission Mike Hanson has welcomed the change in legislation allowing same-sex marriages in the US.
Last Friday the Supreme Court ruled that individual states cannot deny gay couples the same marriage rights as heterose...
DATE: Jul 03, 2015
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Improvements will be made to the embattled Watford/Cavello ferry route, the director of the Department of Marine and Ports Services, Richard Russell, has pledged.
Passengers on the green route service complained to this newspaper last week about unre...
DATE: Jul 01, 2015
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Two swimmers have just been given an extra incentive to cross the English Channel with a sudden anonymous donation of £10,000 ($16,000).
Bermudians John Tomlinson and Jeff Conyers, along with two other team-mates, are preparing to swim in the frigid ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2015
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Equal rights campaigners in Bermuda have said the legalisation of same-sex marriage across the United States yesterday should serve as a reminder for the Island to follow suit.
The Supreme Court ruled that individual states cannot deny gay couples t...
DATE: Jun 27, 2015
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Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell hopped aboard a public ferry yesterday morning to hear, first-hand, complaints about the service by morning commuters.
The ferry servicing Watford, Cavello and Rockaway hit the headlines this week as passengers des...
DATE: Jun 27, 2015
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Passengers commuting on the morning ferry from Watford, Cavello and Rockaway have described being treated like “cattle” in crowded and unventilated conditions.
Others have complained about late ferry arrivals and bathroom and air conditioning facilit...
DATE: Jun 25, 2015
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