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Plans to safeguard a portion of Bermuda’s exclusive waters are modest compared with what Britain might impose if the island fails to act, home affairs minister Walter Roban has warned.
Mr Roban spoke after the Government’s “Blue Prosperity” marine co...
DATE: Sep 20, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Bermudian artist has been left “honoured” after painting a high-profile mural celebrating a team of Black university athletes who took a landmark stand against racism more than 50 years ago.
Dubbed the “Syracuse 8” by the media of the day – even th...
DATE: Sep 20, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A 31-year-old Paget woman pleaded guilty to being nearly three times the legal drink-driving limit when she was involved in a single-vehicle crash.
Alan Richards, for the Crown, told Magistrates’ Court that at about 2.20am on July 25, police were not...
DATE: Sep 20, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Stefano Ausenda
A 35-year-old man suffered stab wounds and a 62-year-old woman swelling to her head after an altercation between a group of people at the Royal Bermuda Regiment headquarters on Sunday.
A police spokesman said: “Shortly before 11am police received a n...
DATE: Sep 20, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A man seriously injured in a fall on Thursday afternoon has been named by police as 62-year-old Randall Walker.
Mr Walker remains in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit after sustaining a potentially life threatening head injury.
He was discovered at ...
DATE: Sep 20, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man who caused the death of a friend in a boat crash was given a suspended prison sentence after a judge said he was “handcuffed” by precedent
DATE: Sep 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Drivers were asked to avoid an area of Middle Road in Smith’s this afternoon after a two-vehicle crash was reported by police at 12.50pm.
A spokesman advised the collision occurred near the junction of Jennings Road and Middle Road.
Diversions were i...
DATE: Sep 17, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Tributes have been paid to the memory of Queen Elizabeth II during a rare joint session of the Legislature called in her honour today.
The extraordinary gathering saw just two out of 34 Progressive Labour Party parliamentary representatives voicing t...
DATE: Sep 17, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
The Government has defended its controversial Covid testing policy for visitors in the wake of criticism from cruise ship operators.
Earlier this week The Royal Gazette
revealed that two cruise lines had cancelled seven transatlantic cruises sche...
DATE: Sep 17, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Now is not the time for the island to consider independence, said a former premier who asked the public to vote on the issue more than 25 years ago.
Sir John Swan resigned as leader of the United Bermuda Party after over 73 per cent of people who tur...
DATE: Sep 17, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
