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Triathlete Dame Flora Duffy won another Female Athlete of the Year award while triple jumper Jah-Nhai Perinchief is a first-time winner of the Male Athlete of the Year for 2021 after an outstanding season overseas.
The pair were recognised for their...
DATE: Mar 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Lawrence Trott
The Bermuda Police Service has extended its condolences to the family and loved ones of the child who lost his life in a car accident yesterday.
Police also thanked those who helped in the rescue efforts during the incident that took place at about ...
DATE: Mar 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Firefighters extinguished a burning vehicle in Smith’s this afternoon.
A spokesman for the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service said that at about 12.12pm, they received reports of a fire at Tamarisk Hill.
The spokesman said: “One appliance from Hamilton ...
DATE: Mar 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Firefighters tackled a structural fire at Uppington Crescent, Pembroke on Saturday night.
Just after 9.50pm, Bermuda Fire and Rescue received a report and responded with eight crew members.
On arrival they were met with thick, dark smoke that was fl...
DATE: Mar 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A new group of Royal Bermuda Regiment chainsaw operators have qualified as the island’s defence force gears up for another hurricane season.
Instructors said that six soldiers, drawn from across the RBR, had volunteered for the two weeks of training...
DATE: Mar 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Normal traffic has resumed in St George’s after a collision near the junction of Wellington Slip Road and Mullet Bay Road.
A police spokesman said at about 2.40pm today: “The scene is currently being processed by traffic collision investigators and t...
DATE: Mar 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A baby drowned yesterday after a car ploughed through a fence and plunged into the sea.
The car, with a woman and two children inside, went into the water at Shark Hole in Hamilton Parish.
Rescuers jumped into the water and freed the woman and the ol...
DATE: Mar 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An appeal to raise funds for Ukrainians has passed its $100,000 target.
Ann Spencer-Arscott, the executive director of the Bermuda Red Cross, said that donations totalled $130,000.
She added: “We are so grateful to the community for their generosity ...
DATE: Mar 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Details of a $170,000-a-year consultancy contract at the island’s troubled incinerator are being kept under wraps by the Government.
Wayne Furbert, acting minister for public works at the time, confirmed last month that a project engineer had been hi...
DATE: Mar 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Big-hearted athletes who pitched in for the Bermuda SPCA were joined at their cheque presentation by a young dog in need of a home.
Women of the Docksider Netball Team gathered outside the Hamilton pub to meet Spice, a four-year-old Staffordshire bul...
DATE: Mar 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell