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Family, friends and colleagues have paid tribute to a guardian of Bermuda’s heritage after the passing of Elfrida Chappell.
Mrs Chappell, who celebrated turning 100 last year, was remembered as a “heroic woman” with a passion for conservation: she d...
DATE: Jul 18, 2015
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Sarah Lagan
Kahnae Bean and Shane Antonition have been awarded the 2015 Steinhoff/BZS Scholarship for students pursuing degrees in the environmental sciences.
Ms Bean is entering her final year at University of Hertfordshire in the UK, where she is studying Envi...
DATE: Jul 18, 2015
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Preparations for the America’s Cup resulted in jobs for 236 workers in Dockyard by mid-June, the House of Assembly heard yesterday.
Grant Gibbons, the Minister of Economic Development, said the America’s Cup Event Authority has relocated nine employe...
DATE: Jul 18, 2015
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Customers may get lower electricity bills as the Bermuda Government warned Belco it could face healthy competition from alternative power suppliers.
Under a draft Electricity Bill tabled in Parliament, Belco will retain control of the grid — but Gran...
DATE: Jul 18, 2015
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A plane from Paris diverted to Bermuda so that a sick passenger could receive medical treatment.
The American Airlines flight, bound for Miami, arrived at LF Wade International Airport at about 1.45pm yesterday.
According to airport staff, the sick m...
DATE: Jul 18, 2015
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Imagine Bermuda will be holding a “Happy Hour with a difference” at the Bermuda College this evening to mark the eve of Nelson Mandela Day.
The event has been organised by Imagine Bermuda in conjunction with the Chewstick Foundation, the African Dia...
DATE: Jul 17, 2015
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The Progressive Labour Party has refused to say whether it supports the Bermuda Government’s multimillion investment in the 2017 America’s Cup.
Opposition leader Marc Bean, deputy leader David Burt, shadow economic development minister Wayne Furbert ...
DATE: Jul 17, 2015
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Jeanne Atherden, the Minister of Environment, has said that her department would consider putting extra regulations on recreational fishing in Bermuda.
Ms Atherden was speaking in response to calls from commercial fishermen who fear their livelihoods...
DATE: Jul 17, 2015
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Sarah Lagan
Women’s Resource Centre founder and social activist Sylvia Hayward-Harris is working to get transcendental meditation into Bermuda’s prison and school systems.
Ms Hayward-Harris is the only active local certified teacher of the practice which she say...
DATE: Jul 17, 2015
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The City of Hamilton should consider means-tested car parking fees, according to Charles Jeffers, deputy chairman of Age Concern.
Mr Jeffers was responding to news that seniors will be subjected to a fee of $10 to use City Hall car park when it becom...
DATE: Jul 17, 2015
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AUTHOR:
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