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Bermuda-based Bacardi has donated $10,000 to the Flora Fund to help aspiring Bermudian athletes achieve their dreams.
Olympic gold medal-winner Flora Duffy cycled to the Bacardi global headquarters on Pitts Bay Road to collect the company’s contribut...
DATE: Oct 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The AXA End-to-End will take to Bermuda’s roads today, rain or shine.
Organisers this afternoon urged participants to keep an eye on the weather forecast before setting out.
The Bermuda Weather Service has forecast rainy conditions throughout tomorro...
DATE: Oct 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A mural created by two artists to honour Olympic gold medal winner Flora Duffy is to be installed on the front of the General Post Office in Hamilton.
Kendra Earls and Shanna Hollis’s work Unfolding Flora Duffy was chosen by the Department of Culture...
DATE: Oct 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An American healthcare worker said he was delighted to be on the island after he endured mountainous waves on a solo voyage in a tiny boat from New York.
Anthony Lisske, 49, told The Royal Gazette yesterday that he had picked a good weather window fo...
DATE: Oct 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Bermudian journalist who moved to the UK five years ago has been named one of the most inspirational Black business leaders in her new home town.
Carla Zuill was recognised by the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce as “an inspiration to the com...
DATE: Oct 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Artists were today asked to use their talent in Christmas competition inspired by Olympic champion Flora Duffy.
Her achievement as the island’s first Olympic gold medal winner is the basis for the second annual festive wrapping paper design competiti...
DATE: Oct 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Government is facing a legal challenge after awarding a contract to a foreign shipping company – without first putting the contract out to tender locally.
Lawyers for island-based importer Mailboxes Unlimited have written to Wayne Furbert, the Mi...
DATE: Oct 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Campaigners who tried to save a historic house condemned to the wrecking ball despite its pivotal role in the formation of the Berkeley Institute are to continue their fight.
Duncan Simons of Wantley Matters, a pressure group set up to save Wantley, ...
DATE: Oct 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Trench and road works in Hamilton Parish mean a road closure will be extended, the Ministry of Public Works said.
A notice said traffic will be affected until November 19.
It said: “The Ministry of Public Works wishes to inform motorists that the ong...
DATE: Oct 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A charity set up in the name of Olympic triathlon champion Flora Duffy to sponsor budding sports stars has been given $10,000 by a bank.
The cash was donated to the Flora Fund by Clarien Bank.
Ms Duffy said: “Looking back, as I cannot help but do thi...
DATE: Oct 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell