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Support continues to run high in Bermuda for antiracism organisations to work towards racial justice, according to a survey of residents by one of the island’s leading campaign groups.
Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda reported 83 per cent fou...
DATE: Sep 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The public was encouraged to pause and remember the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
A Cabinet Office spokesperson said the Cabinet Office had taken time to commemorate the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City and at the Pentago...
DATE: Sep 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A frustrated father who fears losing any chance of a relationship with his biological son said he was “treated wrongly from Day 1” after the Department of Child and Family Services deemed him unsuitable for the child’s care.
The 61-year-old, who cann...
DATE: Sep 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Among guests at yesterday’s proclamation ceremony of the King was the island’s first Black Bermudian aide-de-camp, who served as equerry, or assisting officer, to the Queen in her 1975 visit to Bermuda.
For Major Alvin Daniels, 76, the death of the Q...
DATE: Sep 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Government is looking for parties interested in a contract to provide fuel and upgrade the Government’s fuel infrastructure according to a recent request for proposal.
The RFP, published online this week, said: “The Government of Bermuda would li...
DATE: Sep 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda will mark the accession of King Charles III tomorrow with a Proclamation Ceremony on Front Street.
The ceremony, to begin at 9am, will be presided over by Governor Rena Lalgie.
A spokeswoman for Government House said that members of the publi...
DATE: Sep 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
In her long reign, the Queen witnessed the 180-degree transformation of Bermuda from a racist and insular economic backwater into a progressive, cosmopolitan powerhouse, punching above its weight in the world.
For 350 years, Bermuda had seen chattel ...
DATE: Sep 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Burgess
An audience with the Queen came as a surprise for Parks superintendent Stephen Furbert during the monarch’s 2009 visit to Bermuda with her husband, Prince Philip.
Their tree planting at Government House, an almost obligatory ritual for a visiting dig...
DATE: Sep 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Through her 70-year reign, the Queen witnessed first-hand the transformation of the maritime museum in Dockyard into the country’s largest museum.
The director of the National Museum of Bermuda, Elena Strong, said: “I remember her being in awe of ho...
DATE: Sep 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Stefano Ausenda
Who could have known? But it is a good thing that there wasn’t a tournament slated for this weekend, because it probably would not happen.
The events of the last few days have meant that the offshore is in, what could be called, a confused state.
W...
DATE: Sep 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines