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Today is the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. We look back at that day and how Bermuda reacted to the events.
News of the 9/11 terrorist attacks arrived in Bermuda almost instantly.
Four se...
DATE: Sep 11, 2021
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A national holiday in honour of Olympic gold medal-winner Flora Duffy was declared yesterday.
The Government announced that October 18 would be Flora Duffy Day in recognition of the triathlete’s success at Tokyo 2020 and the World Championships.
Ms D...
DATE: Sep 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
O.B.E. - overcome by events – that would summarise the situation nicely.
The circumstances that conspired to move The Royal Gazette Wahoo Tournament back to the first of its alternate dates, now September 19. There will be the naysayers who will be...
DATE: Sep 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
One of the first orders US president George W Bush gave after an airliner slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre on the morning of September 11 was to shut down American air space.
US Air Force fighter jets were scrambled with orders ...
DATE: Sep 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Brett Jolly, a US citizen, was on a routine flight from Portugal to Newark in New Jersey on September 11, 2001.
But it turned into a flight he would never forget after al-Qaida terror attacks hit his homeland.
Mr Jolly said in a letter to The Royal G...
DATE: Sep 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Two schools yesterday held services to remember former pupils killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York 20 years ago today.
Rhondelle Tankard, at Warwick Academy between 1982 and 1987, and Boyd Gatton, who left Saltus Grammar in 1980, were bot...
DATE: Sep 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Lieutenant-Colonel David Gibbons was the Commanding Officer of the Bermuda Regiment at the time of the 9/11 terror attacks.
Colonel Gibbons, now the Honorary Colonel of the Royal Bermuda Regiment, said that the island’s soldiers and other emergency ...
DATE: Sep 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Construction has started in the East End that will bring a businessman’s restaurant empire to St George’s.
Marico Thomas, who took up part-ownership of the old George & Dragon pub in February, confirmed yesterday that he had started renovations on th...
DATE: Sep 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
An international tech company could bring satellite broadband service to Bermuda next year.
SpaceX – the company behind a series of recent rocket launches – has yet to launch its Starlink satellite internet service, but people who tried to sign up la...
DATE: Sep 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A lane is to get a new surface and lights as part of an upgrade by the City of Hamilton.
Washington Lane, which connects Church and Reid Streets in the city, will be repaved and the lights replaced from the middle of the month until the end of Octobe...
DATE: Sep 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor