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Detectives yesterday continued their investigation into an explosion that claimed the life of a popular garden centre employee, a police spokesman said.
Oscar Mascarinas, 49 – a guest worker from the Philippines – died after the blast at a Southampto...
DATE: May 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Bermuda Job Board website is back online after several hours interruption yesterday.
A spokesman for the Department of Workforce Development advised this evening that service to the site www.bermudajobboard.bm had been restored.
He said: “The de...
DATE: May 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Island soldiers yesterday jetted off for a tough two week overseas exercise at a United States Marine Corps base.
About 140 Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers will be joined by ten Marines from the new Turks & Caicos Islands Regiment, who have already u...
DATE: May 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A director of a struggling organisation for domestic abuse victims reportedly told a civil servant there would be a “front page” news story if it didn’t get its charitable status back.
Damon Wade, co-chair of the Centre Against Abuse, wrote in an e-m...
DATE: May 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
The island’s roads and the Railway Trail were packed with people headed west on Saturday, whether walking, cycling or running, after the Convex End-to-End returned to full strength after the pandemic.
Organisers claimed that this year’s event had gon...
DATE: May 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
One of the island’s most celebrated novelists was honoured for her work at a ceremony at Berkeley Institute on Saturday night.
The school’s Girlcott committee hosted the event in honour of Florenz Maxwell, author of Girlcott.
Ms Maxwell’s novel, pub...
DATE: May 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A programme launched by a Bermuda museum has been named a finalist in Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards.
The National Museum of Bermuda’s Tracing our Roots/Routes programme, which launched last year, was highlighted in the competitions ...
DATE: May 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
More foster parents are needed to help support vulnerable young people in Bermuda.
Tinee Furbert, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors, said that while there are 65 children in foster care, there was still a need for more people willing to ...
DATE: May 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Technical problems that frustrated Government services across the island yesterday and today were resolved last night.
A Government spokeswoman said tonight its e-mail systems were now operating and most of its services are running normally following...
DATE: May 07, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The City of Hamilton continued to celebrate the arrival of Spring yesterday with Flower Friday.
Passersby had the chance to spin the Flower Power Wheel for the chance to win a free bouquet in time for Mother’s Day.
The week concludes today with Spr...
DATE: May 07, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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