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If you want to know what it takes to succeed in the Island Games, a good person to ask is Bermuda’s 30-medal phenomenon Kaisey Griffith.
In the previous four NatWest Island Games she struck gold 21 times and won a further nine medals to become arguab...
DATE: Jul 15, 2013
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Spectators at the Bermuda Day Half-Marathon this Friday should keep an eye out for bib number 76, because it will be worn by a runner who has competed in the race every year since 1973.
George Jones celebrated his 76th birthday last week and has been...
DATE: May 20, 2013
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It was an unexpected sight a two-seater couch trundling along the roads towed by two of the Island’s top runners.
Up ahead were 90 runners and walkers taking part in the ‘Sir’ Stanley Burgess 5K road race, and among them a team of 46 out to prove the...
DATE: May 15, 2013
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Bermuda’s unemployment rate has almost doubled in the past three years, new figures show.
At the end of 2012 the rate was eight percent, compared to 4.5 percent in 2009.
The effect of the Island’s economic contraction, currently entering into a fift...
DATE: Apr 13, 2013
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The Bermuda-produced CD ‘Lennon Bermuda’ has struck the right note in the home city of John Lennon, and is being given airtime inside Liverpool Football Club’s Anfield stadium.
A copy of the 32-track CD, featuring Bermudian and international artists ...
DATE: Mar 27, 2013
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The singing voices of 300 students filled the City Hall grounds yesterday afternoon, with help from visiting a cappella group Voces8.
The UK troupe is performing at this year’s Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts and used some of its time on the ...
DATE: Feb 21, 2013
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A visiting bird of prey has taken a liking to a Hamilton office block, and it’s a good bet that any neighbourhood pigeons are staying out of its way.
A juvenile peregrine falcon, the fastest species of bird in the world, has been seen roosting on XL ...
DATE: Feb 20, 2013
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Government is to act swiftly to fix the economy, and has pledged to cut red tape and streamline avenues for job creation and business development.
It intends to work closely with the private sector to create a more welcoming environment for local and...
DATE: Feb 09, 2013
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Some birds rarely seen in Bermuda have been spotted during an Island-wide count, including a long-tailed duck, yellow-throated vireo and a horned grebe.
A total of 8,579 individual birds, representing 101 different species, were spotted from dawn to ...
DATE: Jan 02, 2013
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An impressive osprey has been photographed tucking into a fish it had caught on the western side of the Island.
The large bird of prey was one of three spotted at Morgan's Point during an Island-wide Christmas bird count by the Bermuda Audubon Socie...
DATE: Dec 31, 2012
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