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Seniors charity Project Action has thanked the community for raising $27,000 to prevent it from closing.
Last month, co-founder Cindy Swan revealed that the organisation needed at least $10,000 before today to stay in operation.
For the past 16 year...
DATE: Jul 16, 2016
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Finance minister Bob Richards wants to “put to bed the nonsense” being circulated by his Opposition counterpart David Burt that suggests the Bermuda Government flouted financial instructions to secure the development of L.F. Wade International Airpor...
DATE: Jul 15, 2016
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Sarah Lagan
A weeklong trip to Las Vegas by the chairman and executive director of the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission cost almost $6,500.
Commission chairman Alan Dunch disclosed the figure in a press release yesterday, after questions from The Royal Gazette. ...
DATE: Jul 15, 2016
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Sam Strangeways
After years of illness and frustration over the lack of an accurate diagnosis, Stacey Dunn has concluded that the water in her home is the cause of her sickness.
“We’re just getting out of here,” Ms Dunn told The Royal Gazette from the front room of ...
DATE: Jul 15, 2016
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Jonathan Bell
A fisherman who posted a picture of himself on social media after catching a rainbow parrotfish — a species protected under law — is being investigated by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
The investigation was sparked after the ph...
DATE: Jul 15, 2016
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Sarah Lagan
Three residences struck by bullets in Monday night’s gunfire near Rambling Lane illustrate how close the island came to losing a bystander to a stray shot.
The bullet that punched through the shutter and kitchen window of one home flew into a hangout...
DATE: Jul 15, 2016
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A bid by a Bermudian and his fiancé to become the first gay couple to wed on the island could go before the Supreme Court next week.
Winston Godwin and Greg DeRoche, who live in Toronto, had their application to marry rejected by the Registrar-Genera...
DATE: Jul 15, 2016
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Sam Strangeways
Prudence Schmidt Arnold has fond memories of growing up in Bermuda.
In celebration of her 90th birthday, the great-grandmother returned to the island this week with 27 family members on board the Norwegian Breakaway to show them where she was born.
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DATE: Jul 15, 2016
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Progressive Labour Party MP Wayne Furbert has vowed to bring his rejected Human Rights Amendment Act back to the House
of Assembly, but is now willing to entertain the possibility of civil unions.
Yesterday, the Senate sent back the Bill, which aime...
DATE: Jul 15, 2016
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Bermuda Hospitals Board’s annual report for 2012 shows how managers battled to improve quality in tough economic conditions, according to chairman Peter Everson.
The document, delayed after the Auditor-General called for a review into its financial s...
DATE: Jul 15, 2016
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