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The Mayor of Hamilton has called for a police presence at the city’s bus terminal to tackle antisocial behaviour and violence.
Charles Gosling’s plea comes after a vicious brawl involving several young male students erupted on Church Street outside t...
DATE: Oct 18, 2017
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The Department of Public Transportation has announced the following bus cancellations for Wednesday afternoon.
The following buses will not be running:
Route 8D from Dockyard to Hamilton at 4.35pm.
Route 9 from Hamilton to Prospect at 5.45pm.
Route 9...
DATE: Oct 18, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The endangered Bermuda bean has earned a place in a conservation bank intended to preserve international species.
Samples of the species, which has been clinging to life in Bermuda, have now been stored at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norweg...
DATE: Oct 18, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Massachusetts couple’s visit to the island marked a milestone in more ways than one.
Polly and Arthur Logan have now notched up 25 visits since their first trip in the 1970s.
And the pair’s most recent trip was their first for 17 years, and was pl...
DATE: Oct 17, 2017
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The fourth golf tournament in memory of chef Tomasz Tabor is to be held in two weeks’ time.
The event, to honour Mr Tabor, who was killed in a bike accident in 2014, will raise funds for a scholarship scheme set up in his name.
Neil Mountford, one of...
DATE: Oct 17, 2017
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Governor, John Rankin, has fired Freddie Evans from his position as education commissioner, it was confirmed yesterday.
But Dr Evans’s lawyer Mark Diel said his sacking came too late to be valid and that the battle would now end up in the courts for ...
DATE: Oct 17, 2017
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
New details on Bermuda’s role in the toppling of slavery have been revealed by historian Clarence Maxwell.
Dr Maxwell’s lecture for the ThinkFest series was based on two notable figures from local history.
A Bermudian former slave, Mary Prince, becam...
DATE: Oct 17, 2017
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Jonathan Bell
Plans to water down the power of the island’s human rights legislation could lead to abuses, lawyer Tim Marshall warned yesterday.
He said that Walton Brown, Minister of Home Affairs, should reconsider proposals to give Bermuda’s immigration law supe...
DATE: Oct 17, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
CedarBridge Academy is to host a “Big Time Banquet” at the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club this month in anticipation of its 20th anniversary in November.
All students and teachers, past and present, are invited to come together and celebrate “20 year...
DATE: Oct 17, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Campaigners fear the public are “turned off” by obesity risks despite its crippling impact on Bermuda’s health and economy.
More than 8,000 people suffer from lifestyle and diet-linked type 2 diabetes, with 157 patients on dialysis at the hospital, a...
DATE: Oct 17, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
