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Light-up novelties, glowing cotton candy and a fire show brought a touch of magic to yesterday’s Harbour Nights.
The first instalment of October Lights, which also featured Gombeys, music and lights on almost every stall, proved a hit among visitors...
DATE: Oct 08, 2015
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Tourism
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Hotels are fully booked ahead of this month’s America’s Cup races — with hoteliers optimistic the event is already helping the ailing tourism industry to turn a corner.
Six hotels and guesthouses across Hamilton and Paget told The Royal Gazette of ve...
DATE: Oct 08, 2015
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Event
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The Bermuda Government’s revenues climbed $8.4 million, or 3.9 per cent, to $221.2 million during the second quarter of this year.
However, government spending also increased by 1.4 per cent for the period of April through to June, to $269.8 million....
DATE: Oct 08, 2015
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
After almost 200 days at sea, a message in a bottle was discovered on Elbow Beach around 1,000 miles from where it was thrown into the ocean by a student.
Graham Smith, who discovered the bottle yesterday, said yesterday: “I have seen many a bottle f...
DATE: Oct 08, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Commissioner of Police has hailed the coming together of communities as a major factor in the recent lull in gang violence.
Michael DeSilva said he was pleased with the drop in gang-related crime and tit-for-tat shootings this year, but he insist...
DATE: Oct 08, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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Although the number of customers without power shot up today, Belco advised that as of this evening only 14 customers remained without electricity.
“As of 8.40pm, we are back down to 14 outages,” a spokeswoman for the utility company said.
At 4.40p...
DATE: Oct 08, 2015
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A pair of Saltus Grammar School students has started building wooden replica models of the catamarans that will be used in the 35th America’s Cup.
Aiden Young and Jamie Sanders, who are both in secondary year two, have completed the hulls of an AC4...
DATE: Oct 08, 2015
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Bermuda College has formed a new partnership with Savannah College of Art and Design that will “open the door of opportunity”.
Students of the arts and science division can now take classes that will count toward admission into several SCAD baccalaur...
DATE: Oct 08, 2015
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Shadow Minister of Immigration Walton Brown has called on Michael Fahy to apologise for comments he made about the Ombudsman.
However, Sylvan Richards, the Junior Minister of Home Affairs, said in a statement today that the One Bermuda Alliance rejec...
DATE: Oct 08, 2015
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An investigation has been launched after a prisoner died at Westgate.
The Ministry of National Security confirmed the death this afternoon in a written statement.
A ministry spokesperson said: “Tragically an inmate at the Westgate Correctional Facil...
DATE: Oct 08, 2015
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