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Children whose parents cannot afford homes with large yards will benefit from a Throne Speech pledge to protect public open spaces, according to environmental group BEST.
BEST said Bermuda’s acres of forests and meadows were “dwindling” and praised t...
DATE: Sep 19, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Tobacco Bay has won the Expert’s Choice Award with the website TripExpert.
The St George’s beach, operated by Beach Boys Ltd, is the first in Bermuda to win the international award, according to East End MP Renée Ming.
Ms Ming said in a statement: “I...
DATE: Sep 19, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The Food Walk in Chancery Lane, scheduled for noon to 2pm today, has been postponed because of bad weather.
The event, part of the City Food Festival, has been rearranged for tomorrow at the same time.
Other items on the agenda for the festival inclu...
DATE: Sep 19, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A Bermuda delegation participated in a plaque exchange on the cruise ship MS Aurora.
The meeting came as the P&O ship made a short stop-over at King’s Wharf in Dockyard.
Transport minister Walter Roban led the delegation on board the Bermuda-register...
DATE: Sep 19, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Students, staff and parents from Saltus Grammar School and Warwick Academy descended on South Shore over the weekend to clear trash and debris from the beaches.
Meanwhile a team from Bermuda High School for Girls took to Admiralty House Park to join ...
DATE: Sep 18, 2017
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Other
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Roslyn Bascombe-Adams, Bermuda Hospitals Board’s director of emergency and hyperbaric services, is to join the hurricane relief effort in the British Virgin Islands at the request of the Pan American Health Organisation and the World Health Organisat...
DATE: Sep 18, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
David Burt, the Premier, has dismissed a trip to meet would-be gaming operators in New York as a “figment of the imagination” of the former government.
The purported trip, a source of controversy in social media in the run-up to the July General Elec...
DATE: Sep 18, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Scores more dead fish have washed up on the island’s South Shore at John Smith’s Bay and Devonshire Bay.
Last week The Royal Gazette reported that the rotting carcasses of dozens of fish were found on the sands at Shelly Bay and floating in St George...
DATE: Sep 18, 2017
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Other
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The island’s tourist authority hit back at claims by new tourism minister Jamahl Simmons that it had failed to look after its finances.
And the authority — a quango set up under the former One Bermuda Alliance government — said Mr Simmons had used an...
DATE: Sep 18, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A 54-year-old Devonshire man has been arrested in connection with a counterfeit US $50 note tendered at the RUBiS Causeway Service Station on Tuesday evening, according to police.
A spokesman advised residents to look out for fake bills bearing the s...
DATE: Sep 18, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell