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A dispute that led to three days of industrial action at a Government quarry has been resolved, it was revealed yesterday.
Arnold Smith, a Bermuda Industrial Union official, said an “amicable solution” was reached after a meeting last week between th...
DATE: Mar 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A string of road closures were announced today because of major trenching work by power firm Belco.
Harrington Sound Road in Hamilton Parish will be closed from Knapton Hill to Middle Road in Flatts for about 27 weeks from March 9 to September 26.
Tr...
DATE: Mar 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Media professionals will tomorrow take part in a free webinar discussing ‘Media & Anonymity: Widening the Divide?’
The event has been organized by Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda (CURB) who said that guest media panelists will be media professio...
DATE: Mar 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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Hollywood star Michael Douglas has backed a new music video featuring Bermudian performers.
Hope – written by Tony Brannon, a musician, and performed by the group Perfect Strangers – was released yesterday.
Mr Douglas, who mother, Diana Dill, wa...
DATE: Mar 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Reggae music station Irie 98.3FM was back on air today after the station was shut down because of technical problems.
The 24-hour station closed earlier this month to move its transmitter and antenna to a new tower in Prospect, Devonshire.
The move w...
DATE: Mar 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermuda’s newest soldiers finished Recruit Camp at the weekend ready to start the next phase of their careers in the military.
Almost 50 recruits completed a tough two weeks of training on Friday and will begin to build on the basics from next week.
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DATE: Mar 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Live music returned to the streets of Hamilton with a performance by The Unit Band on the front steps of City Hall.
A group of around 50 people gathered to watch Saturday’s show from a distance as the group played a range of classic songs.
The hour-...
DATE: Mar 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
More than 100 copies of a bestselling book on antiracism have been donated to schools and libraries across the island.
How to be an Antiracist, by US scholar and historian Ibram X. Kendi, gives readers practical advice on what they can do to crea...
DATE: Mar 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Firefighters were called out to Clearwater, in St David’s, over the weekend to put out a trash can fire.
“We did have a fire at at 3.15pm and the fire service responded with one appliance from Clearwater station and four firefighters. The fire was e...
DATE: Mar 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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An association set up to promote the welfare of former and serving soldiers is to celebrate its first anniversary with a recruitment drive.
Major Preston Gill, a serving Royal Bermuda Regiment officer and the Royal Bermuda Regiment Association presid...
DATE: Feb 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan