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Businessmen and women have swapped their suits for shovels to help to restore the Casemate Barracks in Dockyard.
Twenty volunteers from XL Catlin tackled a range of tough jobs that included cleaning gutters choked with weeds at the old prison last Th...
DATE: May 30, 2016
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Days before the start of the 2016 Hurricane Season, the Ministry of National Security is urging the public to be prepared for storms.
This week, the ministry will be marking Hurricane Preparedness Week with a series of events aimed at reminding resid...
DATE: May 30, 2016
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Weather
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Progressive Labour Party proposal to form a bipartisan job-creation committee has been unanimously rejected by the One Bermuda Alliance.
PLP MPs responded angrily to the snub, with Jamahl Simmons accusing the Bermuda Government of being “uninteres...
DATE: May 30, 2016
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Former chief immigration officer Martin Brewer has been awarded more than $100,000 after being defrauded by a Ponzi scheme in the United States.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority made the arbitration award after Dr Brewer and Richard Weber,...
DATE: May 30, 2016
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North Shore Road in the vicinity of Shelly Bay is being held up due to a traffic accident, police have advised.
The incident is not believed to be a serious one, but motorists may wish to seek alternate routes.
DATE: May 30, 2016
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A 65-year-old holidaymaker was declared dead yesterday afternoon after washing up unconscious on Elbow Beach.
Beachgoers spotted the man at approximately 4.20pm, 250 metres east of the entrance steps to the beach, and immediately began performing CPR...
DATE: May 30, 2016
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Michael DeSilva, the Commissioner of Police, has been elected president of the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police.
This marks the first time a Bermudian Commissioner has held the post.
Describing the new role as “a complete honour”, Mr ...
DATE: May 30, 2016
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The Department of Child and Family Services has honoured the island’s foster parents at their annual Foster Care Appreciation tea.
Sylvan Richards, the Minister of Social Development and Sport, said that during the month of May, the Department of Chi...
DATE: May 30, 2016
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Work on a badly broken stretch of sidewalk off South Road, Paget, has been delayed.
The Ministry of Public Works advises that repairs to the spot next to the public access to Elbow Beach, due to start tomorrow, have been rearranged to begin on Wednes...
DATE: May 29, 2016
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American-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has forecast a near-average Atlantic hurricane season, but note “uncertainty” in the usual climate signals.
In a statement yesterday NOAA predicted a 70 per cent likelihood that the Atlan...
DATE: May 28, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes