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"As a courtesy to the artistes we ask that you avoid making any unnecessary noise or disturbance during the performance." – Bermuda Festival programme
Try telling that to fans of Not the Um Um Players, who packed City Hall to capacity for the launchi...
DATE: Jan 12, 2009
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December 1: Bermudians Against the Draft (BAD) were to take their case against conscription to the Privy Council – Bermuda's highest court of appeal. The campaigners vowed to fight on after losing their case in the Court of Appeal in November. This f...
DATE: Jan 09, 2009
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THE grey dawn light on the morning of May 9, 1782, revealed to the masthead lookout of the Continental frigate Deane a strange sail on the horizon. Even at a distance, he guessed that the vessel with the raked-back masts to leeward was a Bermudian pr...
DATE: Jan 02, 2009
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Soup for travel or travel for soup – it goes either way for the students at The Education Centre who are trying to raise funds for an educational trip to Ghana.
The students and teachers are holding a Soup and Bun Fundraiser and people can either dro...
DATE: Dec 16, 2008
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The voyage from Alexandria took three weeks and then the white buildings and dark green juniper groves of Bermuda came in sight. The Dunera arrived on 2nd December. The Battalion disembarked on the 3rd and 5th and were at once split up into three det...
DATE: Dec 12, 2008
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Each country has its monuments and treasures. Among Bermuda's is 'Woppend' – the annual collection of cartoons created by Peter Woolcock and published weekly in The Royal Gazette.
Eagerly awaited, each year's edition provides a humourous reminder of ...
DATE: Dec 05, 2008
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THE only thing missing, Mr. Editor, was the black glove - although on reflection perhaps a clenched-fist salute might have also added a little more flourish for a grand finish. Otherwise, and in every other way, the Premier's performance was, well, s...
DATE: Dec 05, 2008
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Timothy Hutton is unshaven, uncombed and dressed down in a T-shirt and sweat pants, but he can be forgiven the grooming and fashion violations.
He's in character to shoot the TNT drama "Leverage", in which he plays the leader of a ...
DATE: Dec 05, 2008
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — A group of doctors said yesterday that President Robert Mugabe's government is to blame for a cholera epidemic sweeping Zimbabwe and that the disease's spread there is being dramatically under-reported.
About 160 peo...
DATE: Nov 25, 2008
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BERMUDA is a rumour mongering country and I think gossip is probably our number one national pastime. I don't think that too many people will disagree with this statement. But there are problems associated with all of these half-truths that are passe...
DATE: Oct 31, 2008
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