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A nine-year-old boy has been commended for his quick-thinking after he rushed to the aid of a youngster who was suffering an asthma attack.
Donovan Dyer-Trott was one of nearly 150 students taking part in the interschool cross country race at the Nat...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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All five winners of the inaugural Winter Lionfish Derby have been announced and about 100 lionfish were caught in total.
As revealed in The Royal Gazette this month, Mark Outerbridge won the free diving category, bagging 53 lionfish during the three-...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Government spent more than $200,000 on furnishings for the Public Works headquarters and the Government Administration Building.
According to a notice gazetted last month, the Ministry of Public Works spent $213,602.26 on office furnishings. The cont...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Public Service Union has voted to make the president’s position a full-time, paid post.
During an emergency general meeting held last Friday, members voted in favour of the changes previously approved by the union’s General Council. Of th...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Action group Take Back Our Park has started an online petition to let people have their say over a maintenance yard being built in the middle of the Botanical Gardens.
Take Back Our Park wants to see work on the yard, which includes two new two-store...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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A man awaiting trial for burglary was remanded on Monday after the court heard he breached his bail conditions.
Kevin Butterfield, 37, from St George’s, had been released on bail by the Supreme Court last year in advance of a Magistrates’s Court tria...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Newly appointed Senator Georgia Marshall has pledged to be a “positive force” in Bermuda politics as she prepares to assume her position in the Senate this week.
Mrs Marshall was sworn in as part of the One Bermuda Alliance Senate team by Governor Ge...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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Politics
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A Warwick man who walked away from the scene of a crash has been banned from the road.
Odell Grant, 30, pleaded guilty to charges of driving without due care and attention, leaving the scene of an accident, driving without a drivers licence and ridin...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda National Library and the US Consulate will host a special showing of Prince Among Slaves at the Adult Library on Queen Street tomorrow.
Prince Among Slaves is a historical documentary directed, written and produced by Andrea Kalin and n...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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The Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) announced that it will be disposing of condemned equipment, including furniture and fixtures, in the coming weeks.
A BHB spokeswoman said yesterday afternoon: “Mindful of the need to cut costs, a thorough salvaging p...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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