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The City of Hamilton has released a schedule of garbage collection for the Cup Match weekend.
Garbage collections will be scheduled on the following dates:
* Today, Wednesday, July 28, a normal garbage collection will take place for residents.
* Toda...
DATE: Jul 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The fight against slavery in a Caribbean nation 1,000 miles to Bermuda’s south has been celebrated as the island looks to commemorate its own 1834 emancipation over Cup Match.
Glenn Fubler, from the activist group Imagine Bermuda, said the Haitian Re...
DATE: Jul 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Cup Match camping tradition will resume this year – but with Covid-19 restrictions in place.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works said campers and picnickers are allowed to set up their camp sites today, but camping itself will only be pe...
DATE: Jul 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Flora Duffy said this was her last shot and she took it.
There may have been few spectators in Tokyo but all of Bermuda was cheering on Bermuda’s golden girl as she ran into the history books and smashed the Olympic record at the same time.
In the en...
DATE: Jul 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Bill Zuill
Bermuda’s first Olympic medal-winner, Clarence Hill, said last night that his faith in the island’s talents had been borne out by Flora Duffy’s triumph in Tokyo.
The boxing heavyweight who brought home a bronze win from the 1976 Montreal Games said o...
DATE: Jul 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A national celebration awaits gold medal winner Flora Duffy on her return home from last night’s triumph in Tokyo.
David Burt, the Premier, declared that all of Bermuda looked forward to commemorating the island’s second-ever Olympic win and the firs...
DATE: Jul 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police will have a “very robust” plan in place throughout the Cup Match holiday period, including the possibility of extra gang units in light of Sunday night’s double shooting on Court Street.
Asked about heightened police activity Superintendent S...
DATE: Jul 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Garbage collectors who downed tools last week over a lack of working trash trucks returned to work yesterday morning – but garbage collection will still be impacted for the rest of the week.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works said that alth...
DATE: Jul 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Controversial changes to laws governing special development orders were approved by Senators yesterday morning despite opposition.
Lindsey Simmons, the Junior Minister of Home Affairs, told the Senate the Development and Planning Amendment Act 2021 ...
DATE: Jul 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man who was rescued by the US Coast Guard in 2014 trying to travel from Florida to Bermuda by sea in a floating bubble, has drifted ashore trying to “walk” to New York from Florida.
Reza Baluchi, a marathon runner and Iranian exile, was featured o...
DATE: Jul 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan