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A message in a bottle discovered in Bermuda over the weekend was set adrift hundreds of miles off the shores of the Azores on the same day two years earlier.
Pam Amaral said her 19-year-old son, James, made the discovery on shore while the pair were...
DATE: Aug 10, 2017
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Voter information released ahead of the General Election was done following a request approved in 2012, according to the Parliamentary Registrar.
Tenia Woolridge said that a review was conducted to determine how voter information — including e-mails...
DATE: Aug 10, 2017
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At least 164 ballots were rejected from last month’s General Election, with Sandys South Central coming top at 14.
At 0.48 per cent of the total count of 34,060, it was down from the 0.56 per cent in the 2012 election, in which 174 ballots were rejec...
DATE: Aug 10, 2017
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A St George’s man who crashed his car close to home after he celebrated his birthday was today fined a total of $2,000 and taken off the roads for 18 months.
Magistrates’ Court heard this morning that police officers attended a single-vehicle crash o...
DATE: Aug 10, 2017
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Chloe Smith, Tashae Trott, and Phoebe Barboza are the new recipients of the Paget Parish Undergraduate Scholarship and Bursary Award.
Chloe will receive $5,000 each year for the next four years as she begins her studies at Western University, Canada,...
DATE: Aug 10, 2017
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Medical student Meliseanna Gibbons is to realise her childhood dream of becoming a doctor debt-free thanks to a scholarship.
Ms Gibbons spent five years as a child in the African country of Cameroon with her missionary family and always wanted to ret...
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A teen who led police on a high-speed chase on his scooter was this morning fined more than $1,000 and banned from driving for 18 months.
Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo told Mica Hughes: “You are lucky you didn’t kill yourself or somebody else.”
Hughes...
DATE: Aug 10, 2017
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A summer wine festival in Hamilton tomorrow is expected to pull in a hundreds of people for a glass of plonk.
The “Uncorked” event at Hamilton’s Barr’s Bay Park, co-ordinated by Cushi Ming, is designed to bring people together to “meaningfully connec...
DATE: Aug 10, 2017
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The importance of saving money will be the topic of discussion at a Generation Next town hall meeting on Wednesday.
Micah Davis, the general manager of the Bermuda Credit Union, will give a presentation on fiscal responsibility at the event, in the B...
DATE: Aug 10, 2017
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When 16-year-old Hasna Turner first put pen to paper on a book about the Uighurs in Bermuda, it was meant to be a school project.
But after a year of hard work, Uyghurs: Prisoners in Paradise has found its way on to digital store shelves, with the pr...
DATE: Aug 10, 2017
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Owain Johnston-Barnes