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The Bermuda Tourism Authority’s strategy to drive visitation to Bermuda in the first quarter — when arrivals and hotel occupancy numbers are traditionally lower — is paying off in confirmed hotel bookings.
The number of reservations made in the 2015...
DATE: Feb 10, 2015
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Tourism
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A 32-year-old man was bailed in Magistrates’ Court this morning after he pleaded not guilty to possessing cannabis with intent to supply.
The court heard that Lamar Bean, of Redcoat Lane North, St George’s, allegedly had 46.12 grams of the controlle...
DATE: Feb 10, 2015
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Court
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Bermuda’s tourism industry remained stagnant in 2014 with a nominal 0.8 per cent increase in total visitors to the Island.
However, the Bermuda Tourism Authority (BTA) has vowed that 2015 will be the decisive year in building air arrivals, which tumb...
DATE: Feb 10, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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The Bermuda Weather Service has issued gale warning and thunderstorm advisory for this evening in advance of an incoming low pressure system.
While the gale warning is in effect both tonight and tomorrow night, the thunderstorm advisory is expected t...
DATE: Feb 10, 2015
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Other
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Bermuda’s decades of decline in tourism numbers coupled with an overview of the difficulties the industry has still to overcome are detailed in a Travel Weekly report, published in its most recent issue.
Travel Weekly describes itself as “the travel ...
DATE: Feb 10, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
Premier Michael Dunkley has fired back at Ed Miliband in the wake of the British Opposition leader’s threat to target Bermuda in a tax avoidance clampdown.
Mr Miliband said over the weekend that a Labour Government would give overseas territories suc...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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Other
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OBA MP and business owner Jeff Sousa has launched a non-political campaign to save the Agricultural Show.
He is in the process of establishing a a committee to help organise the 77th annual event for which Government cut funding this year as part of...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
New legal actions have been launched against the developer of the proposed Par-la-Ville hotel project.
According to a writ filed on Friday by Conyers Dill & Pearman Ltd, Mexico Infrastructure Finance LLC is suing Michael MacLean, director of Par-la-V...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermudian Christopher Frith first became interested in filmmaking after being “blown away” by the Star Wars films and realising during the credits that people actually get paid for this line of work.
Fast forward a few years and the 23-year-old is n...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Proposals submitted to Government for a new Emergency Housing Facility would allow for twice as many homeless people to benefit from its services than at the current facility on Marsh Lane.
Government has donated the Bishop Spencer School building o...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan