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The proud families of Bermuda’s cricket heroes are preparing to create a rapturous reception as the World Cup squad returns home from Trinidad today.
The cricketers — who won fans all over the globe as they battled against some of the game’s legends ...
DATE: Mar 28, 2007
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People are being urged to maintain the spirit shown during the weekend’s anti-slavery celebrations — and continue fighting to free millions of modern day slaves.
On Sunday, hundreds of people packed out two major events to mark the 200th anniversary ...
DATE: Mar 27, 2007
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A defendant faced a sexual assault charge for several months before being acquitted when the complainant refused to turn up at court for the trial.
The 40-year-old man, from Pembroke, had been accused of using or threatening to use a knife during the...
DATE: Mar 27, 2007
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Hundreds of people packed into the Cathedral for a service to mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade yesterday.
They heard a series of moving speeches and presentations, said prayers and sang a number of hymns, including Amazing Gra...
DATE: Mar 26, 2007
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Entertainment from Gombeys, a string of speeches about Bermuda’s past and a tour of a slavery exhibition formed a vibrant celebration at Commissioner’s House yesterday.
About 150 people turned out for the three-hour commemoration the bicentenary of t...
DATE: Mar 26, 2007
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Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) has hit back at claims its members have a conflict of interests over the controversial closure of the Medical Clinic.
Bermuda Public Services Union leader Ed Ball had alleged some health professionals on the BHB stood to...
DATE: Mar 26, 2007
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The Anglican Church of Bermuda has declared its “deep regret” for profiting from the slave trade.
Bishop of Bermuda Ewen Ratteray marked the bicentenary of the Slave Trade Act by putting forward a resolution acknowledging how the Island’s Church bene...
DATE: Mar 26, 2007
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The newly rebuilt King Edward VII Memorial Hospital will be up and running by 2012, Acting Health Minister Philip Perinchief insisted yesterday.
Mr. Perinchief said that was the time it had been established the current hospital's life would come to a...
DATE: Mar 24, 2007
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It took many decades of tireless campaigning to bring an end to the slave trade which wrecked the lives of millions of people over hundreds of years.
The Slave Trade Act, which banished Britain’s part in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, was finally pa...
DATE: Mar 23, 2007
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Bermudians will this Sunday join millions of people across the world celebrating the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.
On March 25, 1807, decades of campaigning finally paid off when the Trans-Atlantic slave trade was banned — signalli...
DATE: Mar 23, 2007
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