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Bermuda’s lost sailors were remembered during an historic ceremony at sea organised through the Guild of the Holy Compassion in partnership with the Department of Marine and Ports.
The Royal Gazette was invited to witness and document yesterday’s ev...
DATE: Aug 15, 2015
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Sarah Lagan
A love letter from a lonely sailor to his sweetheart in Croatia has come to light after drifting the seas for more than a decade.
Al Thomas was just cruising in his boat last Sunday, watching the annual Round the Island Power Boat Race, when he came ...
DATE: Aug 15, 2015
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Scores gathered at Port Royal Golf Course yesterday afternoon to remember the actions of two Bermuda-born patriots.
An historic plaque honouring St George Tucker and Thomas Tudor Tucker was officially dedicated in front of a delegation of more than 5...
DATE: Aug 15, 2015
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A petition to protect Bermuda’s horses from being overworked in the scorching summer heat has garnered more than 1,000 signatures, including some from overseas.
Erin Lovell, who set up the online petition after a horse collapsed in the street, said t...
DATE: Aug 14, 2015
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The Progressive Labour Party has expressed “deep concerns” with new amendments to legislation that will pave the way for the construction of a five-star luxury hotel in St George’s.
Zane DeSilva, the Shadow Minister of Tourism, claimed the Bermuda Go...
DATE: Aug 14, 2015
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The unemployment rate has fallen by two percentage points, according to the latest government figures.
Total unemployment fell to 2,502 people in 2015 — from 9 per cent to 7 per cent.
And the number of unemployed Bermudians dropped by 936 people from...
DATE: Aug 14, 2015
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Jack Whitney was just 5 when he made his first musical instrument from a roast beef can, a piece of wood, some nails and string that he pinched from the screen door.
It was the beginning of an illustrious career that saw the naturally gifted and popu...
DATE: Aug 14, 2015
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A group of nine Bermudian students have overcome adversity, blisters and a German heatwave to complete their Duke of Edinburgh Gold Expedition.
The teenagers travelled to the town of Osterburken, just south of Frankfurt, at the end of last month to t...
DATE: Aug 14, 2015
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A nine-year-old girl has raised $275 for charity after being sponsored to collect bottles dumped in the ocean.
Rachael Betschart removed hundreds of discarded bottles after Cup Match.
The idea for the clean-up came while she was boating one weekend, ...
DATE: Aug 14, 2015
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A mother of four who plundered nearly $100,000 from a drugs money stash has been jailed.
Laurell Steede, of Pembroke, overheard two drug dealers talking about where they had hidden their money and then stole the cash herself.
Steede used the funds to...
DATE: Aug 14, 2015
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