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A move by the safety campaigners to insist electric bicycles are licensed would make the island’s roads more dangerous, one of the island’s main dealers claimed yesterday.
Michael Paynter, the owner and operator of Pedego Bermuda in St George’s, said...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A career diplomat has been appointed as the Acting US Consul General to Bermuda.
Alan Purcell will take up the role next week after Lee Rizzuto, the former consul general, left the island last Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for the US Consulate General Hami...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A woman claimed yesterday that her great-grandfather’s will was fraudulently signed by his nephews so that they could inherit his property.
Pattie Moore made the claim to the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses yesterday.
Ms Moore, from W...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A Front Street building could get a major redevelopment with more than a dozen apartments added.
The in-principle application, submitted earlier this month, proposed significant changes to the Frith Building at 57 Front Street and 24 Reid Street.
The...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A senior Customs officer yesterday told a jury she saw an alleged drug smuggler look back towards the baggage area as she left the airport without her luggage – which was later found to contain $700,000 worth of drugs.
Dawnette Bell, a principal Cust...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo will reopen its doors next Monday after a month-long closure caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Flatts area attraction shut its doors on December 12 after an increase in coronavirus cases on the island.
A spokes...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A suspended police officer who denied posting a “grossly offensive” message on social media will have her case heard in the Supreme Court, it was confirmed yesterday.
Magistrates’ Court heard that the higher court had accepted an application by Barbi...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A 39-year-old man yesterday denied an allegation that he exposed himself to a teenage girl.
The man, from St George’s, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to a charge of intruding on the privacy of a child in a manner likel...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A damaged baby swing at a playground has been replaced after a worried father contacted The Royal Gazette with safety concerns.
The Shelly Bay, Hamilton Parish swing, designed for infants, was missing two of three rivets missing on one side of the s...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary captain of a disaster relief ship that delivered life-saving hurricane aid to the Caribbean has died.
Rob Anders was 49.
Captain Anders, who skippered RFA Mounts Bay over a three-year deployment to the Caribbean, was appoin...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell