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Surfers made the most of conditions as residents battled blustery weather yesterday.
Gusts were recorded of up to 61mph and seas outside the reefs were thought to be about 12ft in the afternoon with wave heights expected to increase later.
Michelle P...
DATE: Jan 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A member of the Progressive Labour Party executive has resigned.
Tarik Bean-Darrell, an assistant party organiser for the western constituencies, is said to have stepped down because of health issues.
It comes as the PLP prepares to hold an emergenc...
DATE: Jan 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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A health business won the top prize in a Christmas window display competition — even though it does not have a store.
Wild Herbs and Plants of Bermuda, based in the East End but without a physical location, was loaned a window by the Bermuda Economic...
DATE: Jan 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A woman who called emergency services to report a blaze that destroyed a house claimed a fire truck took 45 minutes to arrive.
Elizabeth Dore took issue with national security minister Wayne Caines’s claim that the vehicle reached the property in Uni...
DATE: Jan 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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Visitors to vacation rental properties plunged by 3,000 in a nine-month period in 2019.
Mike Cranfield, of Cranfield’s Property Group, said the decline coincided with the introduction of a 4.5 per cent tax on vacation rental bookings through services...
DATE: Jan 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
(Photographs by Blaire Simmons)
DATE: Jan 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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Two boys aged 14 and 15 were arrested on suspicion of theft of a motorcycle on New Year’s Eve.
Police said the 15-year-old was riding a motorcycle and the younger boy was his passenger on Front Street at 11.45pm.
Police stopped the pair, who were wea...
DATE: Jan 04, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A prison officer was injured in an attack by an inmate at Westgate Prison on New Year’s Day, a government representative said last night.
A spokesman for the Ministry of National Security said that the officer was assaulted by the inmate while on du...
DATE: Jan 04, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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Ewart Brown has launched a fresh legal action against the Attorney-General.
A writ filed in the Supreme Court on December 23 by Forensica Legal lists the former premier, Bermuda Healthcare Services and the Brown-Darrell Clinic as complainants and the...
DATE: Jan 04, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Holiday scheduling was to blame for a banana shortage at some supermarkets, a representative for an wholesaler said yesterday.
Peter Tobin, the president and general manager of the consumer products division at Butterfield & Vallis, said that the fi...
DATE: Jan 04, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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