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An accident on Reid Street at roughly 5pm, apparently involving a motorist and a pedestrian, resulted in traffic being diverted this evening.
Fire Service medics treated the woman at the scene, near the junction with Parliament Street. According to d...
DATE: Sep 30, 2016
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The Department of Maritime Administration starts as a quango, effective tomorrow, under the new rubric of the Bermuda Shipping and Maritime Authority.
Legislation for the move was passed by Parliament in June with Bob Richards, the Minister of Financ...
DATE: Sep 30, 2016
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Tourism figures were up 7.9 per cent in August, according to statistics released this afternoon by the Ministry of Tourism and Transport.
A statement by the ministry said that 94,555 people visited Bermuda for leisure this August, compared to 87,646 ...
DATE: Sep 30, 2016
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Kairah Woolaston has been awarded the annual Skal scholarship worth $5,000.
Ms Woolaston has just completed her second year at Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, where she is earning a Bachelor’s degree in hospitality and tourism management...
DATE: Sep 30, 2016
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Laquita Burrows has been appointed director of the Health Insurance Department.
Announcing the move, the Ministry of Health and Seniors said the Department operates and manages the Bermuda Health Insurance Plan, the Future Care Plan, the Mutual Rein...
DATE: Sep 30, 2016
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Health
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Hurricane Matthew today built into a category 4 storm as it continues west in the Caribbean.
According to Bermuda Weather Service projections, Matthew will gradually tilt northward tomorrow morning, putting it on a likely course for Jamaica by Monday...
DATE: Sep 30, 2016
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Weather
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Ewart Brown, the former Premier, may claim privilege and refuse to answer questions when called as a witness at the Commission of Inquiry.
The second day of the tribunal began yesterday with an unsuccessful application from his lawyer, Jerome Lynch Q...
DATE: Sep 30, 2016
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Event
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Official Opening of the Early Years Programme at BHS (Photographs by Akil Simmons)
DATE: Sep 29, 2016
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Outdated vestiges of law that hearken to the island’s patriarchal past need to be systematically addressed, the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Women’s Issues and Unemployment heard last night.
Elaine Butterfield, from the Centre on Philanthr...
DATE: Sep 29, 2016
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A suspected murderer contacted police on the same evening he is alleged to have shot a man at Southampton Rangers Sports Club and told officers he would turn himself in the next day in connection with an unrelated matter, a court has heard.
Shantoine...
DATE: Sep 29, 2016
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Court
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