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A former police officer will be sentenced next year after he admitted holding a food delivery driver hostage with a fake handgun.
Sam Fraser-Smith, 43, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court yesterday to depriving Romone Reid of his liberty.
The court ...
DATE: Nov 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
An award-winning Bermudian production company has taken a step closer to becoming an international brand after it was picked to promote a luxury resort in the Caribbean.
The Burnt House Productions team of photographer Nhuri Bashir and cinematographe...
DATE: Nov 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The public works ministry has confirmed work has started to clear flood-prone canals.
The news came after the The Royal Gazette last week highlighted the plight of an elderly man, Francis Jeffers, whose caregiver could not get to his house because of...
DATE: Nov 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Premier has been accused of using the Government’s cannabis policy to divert voters away from the island’s problems.
Cole Simons, the One Bermuda Alliance leader, said David Burt and his Progressive Labour Party administration should concentrate...
DATE: Nov 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Bermuda will lose an ally at the heart of the US establishment after a veteran congressman with Bermudian ties retires, a former premier warned yesterday.
Sir John Swan said the decision by GK Butterfield, whose father was Bermudian, to stand down u...
DATE: Nov 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Meteorologists spotted possible tornados off the coast of the island during yesterday’s bad weather, the Bermuda Weather Service has revealed.
The news came after a severe weather warning was issued as the island faced gale force winds.
Mark Guishar...
DATE: Nov 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
People eat about a credit card’s worth of plastic every week, it was revealed at a youth climate change summit yesterday.
The stomach-churning news was featured in a video presentation that showed that people ingested about five grams of microplastic...
DATE: Nov 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Changes to Bermuda’s electricity grid will be needed to attract a range of new power technologies, the home affairs minister said.
But scenarios being reviewed would not allow a new generation company to hook-up to the island’s present electricity gr...
DATE: Nov 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
A restaurant raised more than $5,000 for a children’s charity by selling food items at massively reduced rates.
KFC Bermuda said that proceeds from its seventh annual Halloween treat voucher campaign would be donated to the Coalition for the Protecti...
DATE: Nov 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The island’s psychiatric hospital will mark the International Day of People with Disabilities next week with a motorcade through Hamilton.
The Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute motorcade will leave the Devonshire hospital on December 3 and head for the...
DATE: Nov 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan