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The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce will go to court to challenge plans to develop the South Basin in preparation for the America’s Cup.
BEST maintains it is fully behind the 2017 sporting spectacle and that the group had tried to fulf...
DATE: Aug 10, 2015
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A mission to protect the remains of Bermuda’s founding ship, the Sea Venture, was carried out over the weekend by a team of Bermuda Regiment divers.
The iconic wreck of the English flagship, captained by Admiral Sir George Somers, has lain since 1609...
DATE: Aug 10, 2015
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Jonathan Bell
It’s playwright — W-R-I-G-H-T. As in shipwright or wheelwright. The point being that plays are never so much written as they are wrought: crafted, shaped and honed until they meet both the structural and artistic demands of the dramatic form.
The key...
DATE: Aug 10, 2015
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Planning the logistics for this week’s elaborate re-enactment of the Gunpowder Plot, the first of its kind, has grown into a plot of its own.
The team gathered yesterday at Tobacco Bay for some on-site preparations to recreate the infamous 1775 consp...
DATE: Aug 10, 2015
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Two pilots involved in yesterday’s Around the Island Power Boat Race who were admitted to hospital have been discharged and are now on the road to recovery.
Racing stalwarts Craig Nisbett and Derek Simons had their victory hopes dashed after sufferin...
DATE: Aug 10, 2015
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Colin Thompson
A proud St Georgian who fought in the Korean War has been remembered as a dedicated family man.
Dalton “Cuba Kid” Stovell passed away last Wednesday at the age of 83.
Mr Stovell, who was born and raised in the East End, went to school at East End Pri...
DATE: Aug 10, 2015
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A Bermudian in Canada has undertaken an arduous swim of around 15km to support a children’s charity — and to demonstrate that anybody can do it.
The swim, organised by the group Give to Live, is “a challenge for ordinary people to do extraordinary t...
DATE: Aug 10, 2015
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Supported by the Bank of Bermuda Foundation, the National Museum of Bermuda Press has recently published the fifth volume of Heritage Matters — the popular and informative historical essay series by Edward Harris.
Heritage Matters was first launched...
DATE: Aug 10, 2015
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A strong Bermuda presence at the Ladies European Masters golf competition in England could begin to bear fruit on the Island later in the year, according to the Bermuda Tourism Authority.
The BTA said its bright pink stall at the Buckinghamshire comp...
DATE: Aug 10, 2015
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A Westgate Correctional Facility inmate has been sentenced to one year and 30 days’ imprisonment for possessing cannabis.
In Magistrates’ Court this morning, Devon Hewey, 27, admitted possessing 2.72g of the controlled drug at the prison — an increa...
DATE: Aug 10, 2015
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