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An event highlighting mental health issues has been postponed due to bad weather and flight delays.
Silence the Shame, a panel discussion led by American music executive Shanti Das, had been due to take place at the Bermuda National Gallery this even...
DATE: Sep 29, 2017
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Lou Matthews, the director of Educational Standards and Accountability, announced his resignation yesterday and said Bermuda’s expectations for scholastic excellence are not being adequately supported.
Dr Matthews, who had served in the role since 2...
DATE: Sep 29, 2017
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Keeping the joint mail processing centre and Customs post at the airport is too expensive to consider, Minister for Government Reform Lovitta Foggo told MPs today.
Ms Foggo said that — if the two centres stay in their current premises — in addition ...
DATE: Sep 29, 2017
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The author of a Bermuda-based thriller Bloodwater has revisited the island in a new book.
Writer Colin Duerden said Fried White Grunts is a series of connected stories about growing up in Bermuda which drew inspiration from his own childhood here.
He...
DATE: Sep 29, 2017
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A trainee police officer was removed from duty yesterday after it was revealed he was struck off the UK teachers’ register for life for serious misconduct involving a 16-year-old schoolgirl.
Former Warwick Academy teacher Matthew McGowan, 38, was ban...
DATE: Sep 29, 2017
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Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers return home after two weeks in Turks & Caicos. (Photographs Akil Simmons)
DATE: Sep 28, 2017
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Senators unanimously voted in favour of the Real Estate Brokers’ Licensing Act 2017 yesterday.
The Act was passed by MPs in the House of Assembly on Friday and replaces legislation enacted in 1976.
Progressive Labour Party senator Vance Campbell sa...
DATE: Sep 28, 2017
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Athletes are set to team up to help raise money for hurricane relief.
The Athletes Hurricane Relief Project, championed by veteran coach Steve Burgess and Lucky Elephant Yoga, will task participants with forming teams, to support the Salvation Army’s...
DATE: Sep 28, 2017
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Bermuda’s latest lizard arrival, the brown anole, appears to be thriving but is prompting concern over the island’s endangered natives.
The lizards, first seen in 2014 and recently spotted on the grounds of Aberfeldy Nursery in Paget, are suspected t...
DATE: Sep 28, 2017
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A family from the hurricane-devastated British Virgin Islands thanked Bermuda yesterday for welcoming them in their hour of need.
Jeannette and Mark Forte arrived with children Leo, 17, Nina, 16, and Jasper, 14, on September 17 after Hurricane Irma ...
DATE: Sep 28, 2017
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