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The Bermuda Tourism Authority took home four trophies this week for its campaign to promote the island internationally.
At the Adrian Awards in New York, organised by the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International, the BTA won prizes i...
DATE: Feb 22, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Michael Dunkley dropped in one some of the island’s students this week to help them learn about fitness and a healthy lifestyle as part of the Premier’s Youth Fitness Programme, on offer throughout public schools.
Mr Dunkley was accompanied yesterday...
DATE: Feb 22, 2017
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Education
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A Bermudian-registered mega yacht estimated to have cost €400 million (about $422 million) has been impounded in Gibraltar over allegations of unpaid fees.
According to the BBC Sailing Yacht A, owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, is bein...
DATE: Feb 21, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Victoria Isley, chief sales and marketing officer at the Bermuda Tourism Authority, has been named one of the top minds in the global destination marketing business by an international body.
Ms Isley has been included in a list of the “Top 25 Extraor...
DATE: Feb 21, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Environmental group Greenrock will be hosting a Living Green Expo at City Hall next month, aimed at local businesses who could help people to “Live Green”.
The event is designed to form a framework that will “encourage collaboration, share ideas, cre...
DATE: Feb 21, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Chickenpox has been reported spreading around the island, according to the Ministry of Health.
In a statement yesterday, a spokeswoman for the Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit confirmed that there had been an increase in reports of varicella — comm...
DATE: Feb 21, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Racism has overtaken crime as one of the biggest issues facing Bermuda, according to a poll commissioned by The Royal Gazette.
A surge of voters named racism as their top concern in the Global Research survey this month: 16 per cent, up from 7 per ce...
DATE: Feb 21, 2017
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Students at TN Tatem Middle School went back to their classrooms yesterday after a long break while the school was treated for mould contamination, with the latest inspections showing “significantly lowered and acceptable levels of mould” in the area...
DATE: Feb 21, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The disused Bishop Spencer building on The Glebe Road, Pembroke is to be rented to the Salvation Army for a $1 annual peppercorn lease, according to the Ministry of Public Works.
Details emerged in response to parliamentary questions for the minister...
DATE: Feb 21, 2017
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
It ran 70 years ago in a girlie calendar — but now Miss Bermuda, a painting from the golden age of the pin-up girl, is headed for the auction block to the tune of $18,500.
The piece, offered online by the Grapefruit Moon Gallery, features a scantily-...
DATE: Feb 21, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell