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Singing star Heather Nova will coach the winner of a Bermuda Festival talent competition aimed at girl singer/songwriters.
The champion will perform with Ms Nova at her two festival concerts in February.
The competition is part of the festival’s On ...
DATE: Nov 06, 2018
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One of the island’s top drummers has died. Charles “Jiggs” Douglas was 89.
Dale Butler, a former Progressive Labour Party MP and music historian, said Mr Douglas’s death was “a great loss to Bermuda’s music heritage”.
He added: “He was an absolutely ...
DATE: Nov 06, 2018
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A pastor appointed as Bermuda’s gang violence reduction co-ordinator has had his contract renewed until 2020, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Leroy Bean took up the job in October 2017 for 12 months and has just accepted an extension to his $92,000-a-y...
DATE: Nov 06, 2018
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Fiona McWhirter
Technical issues at two Hamilton parking lots caused headaches for motorists yesterday.
According to a City of Hamilton spokeswoman, problems arose at the No 1 and City Hall parking lots, which caused the ticket machines to not accept credit or debit...
DATE: Nov 06, 2018
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Bermudian actor Julia Frith has been robbing banks across the UK — and loving it.
Ms Frith, 23, is on a British and Irish tour of the hit show The Comedy About A Bank Robbery.
She said: “The amount of times I’ve heard people remark that they haven’t ...
DATE: Nov 06, 2018
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Government’s legal grounds to revoke same-sex marriage can today be revealed in The Royal Gazette.
The case, set to go before the Court of Appeal tomorrow, is scheduled for three days.
The Attorney-General, represented by James Guthrie QC...
DATE: Nov 06, 2018
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Same-Sex Marriage
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Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda End-to-End walk’s main sponsor is to be insurance and reinsurance giant Axa XL, it was announced yesterday.
The firm — formed by a merger between French Axa and Bermuda’s XL — has taken up the baton from XL, which previously sponsored the...
DATE: Nov 06, 2018
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A woman found dead in a house was named by police yesterday.
A spokesman said she was Selina-Mae Dean, who was 51.
Ms Dean was found unconscious at a home in Banana Lane, Warwick, at about 10am on Sunday.
The spokesman said: “She was rushed to King E...
DATE: Nov 06, 2018
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The public have been kept in the dark about government plans for immigration reform, it was claimed yesterday.
A spokeswoman for pressure group Supporting Fair Immigration Reform said the lack of progress was a broken promise by the Government.
She a...
DATE: Nov 06, 2018
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American space agency Nasa opened its new tracking station yesterday.
The station, on Cooper’s Island in St David’s, will be used to monitor Nasa space missions as a predecessor did from the same site in the 1960s, when rockets from Cape Canaveral in...
DATE: Nov 06, 2018
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