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Two 18-year-old men have been arrested in connection with a murder earlier this month, police revealed yesterday.
Duane Gibbons was found unconscious with a stab wound to his back on Blue Hole Hill, Hamilton Parish, in the early hours of September 16...
DATE: Sep 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The bus dispute remained in deadlock last night after negotiations stalled.
The Government referred the dispute to arbitration on Monday in the hope that, with any further work stoppage ruled illegal, bus drivers would be forced back to work.
But Chr...
DATE: Sep 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Hurricane Sam is now a potential threat to Bermuda and has moved back up to a Category 4 storm.
The Bermuda Weather Service said that Sam was about 1,068 miles southeast of Bermuda moving northwest at about 9mph at 6am todayo.
The storm was packing...
DATE: Sep 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A former general manager at the airport who helped bring flights back to the island during a bleak era for Bermuda’s air travel has died.
Jim Howes told The Royal Gazette in 2007 when he retired after five years on the job: “I didn’t just want to dra...
DATE: Sep 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Obituaries
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police today renewed a witness appeal on the first anniversary of the gun murder of 31-year-old woman.
Garrina Cann was celebrating a birthday with friends on the porch of her home when a gunman approached on foot and opened fire.
The killing at Ms C...
DATE: Sep 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A retail industry leader said it was “somewhat frustrating” that the Government would back overseas shopping in a forthcoming Bermuda Post Office venture.
Lorraine Shailer, head of the retail division of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce, was speaking ...
DATE: Sep 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A proposal to build a replacement for Agape House in Warwick has been submitted to the Department of Planning.
The application, submitted by architectural firm Lindberg and Simmons on behalf of the Friends of Hospice, proposes the construction of a n...
DATE: Sep 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda needs to tackle child obesity if it wants to curb a surge in demand for dialysis, experts have said.
A spokesman for the Bermuda Diabetes Association explained there were about 250 people who had end-stage kidney disease, with the majority on...
DATE: Sep 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago have been approved for international adoptions.
Tinée Furbert, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors, said she had cleared the two countries at the request of the Department of Child and Family Services.
Approve...
DATE: Sep 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Commissioner of Police Stephen Corbishley is overseas for personal reasons, it was confirmed yesterday.
A police spokesman said Darrin Simons, the deputy commissioner, had taken over the top job on a temporary basis.
The Official Gazette said Mr Simo...
DATE: Sep 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell