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The Garden Club brought a taste of spring to Hamilton this week as part of their latest “flower flash’.
The display featured sunflowers, snapdragons and lilies at the corner of Reid and Burnaby Streets.
A spokeswoman for the club, which uses a lily a...
DATE: May 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Power has been restored to hundreds of East End residents after an outage this morning.
According to the Belco outline outage map, 932 customers were without electricity as of 10am, but by about 11am power had begun to be restored.
The outage came af...
DATE: May 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Whoa! Bouncy, bouncy. The weather has not been too kind to the angler this past week.
Things are made even worse because most amateurs are limited to weekends and even those with the supposed luxury of being able to work from home have not yet maste...
DATE: May 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
A fintech firm that promised to create a global compliance base in Bermuda and invest millions in the island is under investigation by US authorities.
The US internal Revenue Service and US Department of Justice have launched investigations into Bina...
DATE: May 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A French yacht en route to the Azores was towed to the island yesterday after it was hit by rough weather and mechanical problems.
The Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre said the 40ft French boat Reve D’Oceans IV was en route from the Dominican Repub...
DATE: May 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A book by a pioneer antiracism activist is to go online.
The family of the late David Critchley has given permission for his book Shackles of the Past to be offered as a free download on the Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda website.
Mr Critchley...
DATE: May 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
International assessors are to visit Bermuda next week to survey a $2.8 million pilot boat that suffered major damage after it steamed into a reef.
A government spokeswoman said the St David, bought for $2,795,000, in 2912, was insured for $2.8 mill...
DATE: May 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Contractors for a new $30 million water system for the East End — under way since last February and expected to finish by the end of this year — were announced yesterday morning.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, said mult...
DATE: May 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A former cycle livery in Southampton could be changed into a pharmacy with a deli, according to a planning application submitted this week.
The proposal from the Bermuda Pharmacy Group, which operates the Par la Ville Pharmacy and two other pharmacie...
DATE: May 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A ramp made of Bermuda cedar has been installed at a historic church to make life easier for disabled people.
The Friends of St Peter’s Church, in St George, said the ramp to the vestry was opened last Sunday.
A spokeswoman added: “The ramp was a pro...
DATE: May 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes