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Air arrivals, one of the coveted indicators for the Bermuda Tourism Authority, rose 11.3 per cent for the first quarter of the year according to the Department of Statistics.
Bermuda hosted 32,233 air visitors during the first quarter of 2016, althou...
DATE: Jul 21, 2016
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Freisenbruch-Meyer Group has moved its offices temporarily to the Chubb building in the aftermath of this morning’s blaze.
While the insurer sustained smoke and water damage, there were no injures and all client data remains secure.
In accordance...
DATE: Jul 21, 2016
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A 41-year-old crew member from the Norwegian Breakaway died yesterday after a lifeboat broke from its tethering and plunged into the water.
The Filipino was one of four ship staff rushed to the hospital after the accident, which happened during the c...
DATE: Jul 21, 2016
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Former employees of the now defunct White’s grocery stores will receive 70 per cent of the money they are owed, liquidators have revealed.
Mike Morrison and Charles Thresh of professional services firm KPMG made the announcement last night, adding th...
DATE: Jul 21, 2016
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A 24-year-old Pembroke man has been fined $500 for possessing counterfeit money.
Appearing in Magistrates’ Court this morning, Zakee Govia pleaded guilty to having 14 fake Bermuda $50 notes in Pembroke on May 29.
Prosecutor Alan Richards told the c...
DATE: Jul 21, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Court
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One Bermuda Alliance chairwoman Lynne Woolridge has offered Government’s sympathies to those affected by yesterday’s fire in Hamilton.
“Today is a sad day for Bermuda, the tenants of 77-81 Front Street and other affected businesses that contribute s...
DATE: Jul 21, 2016
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The mother of a severely autistic boy has called for the introduction of a Bermuda Government-run special needs school.
Marcia Scraders's ten-year-old son Omori has pervasive developmental disorder, which is characterised by difficulties in behaviour...
DATE: Jul 20, 2016
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Lawrence Minors, a popular member of Bermuda’s shrinking fraternity of veteran calypso artists, has died at the age of 73.
The bassist played with the Bermuda Strollers, one of the island’s internationally known acts that grew out of the heyday of pe...
DATE: Jul 20, 2016
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An employment dispute between Lawrence Scott and JetBlue Airways is likely to be dealt with by the Human Rights Commission and not the courts, according to the Opposition MP.
Mr Scott told The Royal Gazette that although he started legal proceedings ...
DATE: Jul 20, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Six men who were lost off St David’s in 1927 have been honoured at a special ceremony at sea.
The men, all from St George’s — Goulrich Richardson, Irving Pascoe, Ernest Tucker, George Brangman, Edgar Smith and Robert Gibbons — were on the pilot gig O...
DATE: Jul 20, 2016
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
