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Sandys Middle School students, staff and parents came together to honour Somerset sporting legends at this year’s May 24 festivities.
Not only does this year’s parade float put a spotlight on numerous West End athletes, but those athletes were yester...
DATE: May 23, 2017
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The couple whose legal challenge paved the way for same-sex marriage in Bermuda have got married in Canada.
Bermudian Winston Godwin and Greg DeRoche said they chose to have the ceremony in Mr DeRoche’s home city of Toronto after further delays publi...
DATE: May 23, 2017
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Social rehabilitation programmes involving prisoners will be undertaken with greater sensitivity for the community, Senator Jeff Baron has pledged.
Mr Baron, the Minister of National Security, drew criticism from some quarters when two convicted murd...
DATE: May 23, 2017
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Security chiefs will not take their eyes off the ball when it comes to gang violence and serious crime once the America’s Cup swings into action.
Senator Jeff Baron told The Royal Gazette that the bolstered police presence in St George’s would contin...
DATE: May 23, 2017
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Frustrated and concerned parents of Harrington Sound Primary students challenged education minister Cole Simons yesterday during a PTA meeting at the school.
While Mr Simons told the crowd that preliminary tests had found no further bird mites at the...
DATE: May 23, 2017
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Three students from Somersfield Academy have been brightening up the lives of patients in the hospital’s continuing care unit and hope to leave a lasting legacy behind them.
As part of a school project, M3 students Kate Tobin, Kyaida Lanthier and Mat...
DATE: May 23, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Legislation decreasing the statutory interest rate for the first time in more than 40 years was approved in the House of Assembly on Friday.
While the Statutory Interest Rate Reduction Act tabled by the Progressive Labour Party proposed halving the r...
DATE: May 23, 2017
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Politics
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No evidence shows that Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, the Minister of Home Affairs, was “in any way predetermined” in her decision over a work permit for the activist pastor Reverend Nicholas Tweed, according to the Crown.
The judicial review of the decisi...
DATE: May 23, 2017
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The National Museum of Bermuda has adopted solar energy through a partnership with Land Rover BAR, renewable energy investment company Low Carbon and the Stempel Foundation.
The ribbon was formally cut on the new solar system this afternoon, promisin...
DATE: May 23, 2017
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A 49-year-old drink-driver has been fined and banned from the roads for 18 months.
Appearing in Magistrates’ Court this morning, Angelo Amaral pleaded guilty to driving while over the legal alcohol limit in Pembroke on May 17.
The court heard that ...
DATE: May 23, 2017
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Court
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News Staff