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The Bermuda Regiment is to offer its Warwick Camp site for car parking today as Canadians celebrate their national day on nearby Warwick Long Bay — complete with a shuttle service to the party.
The Regiment will open up the camp gates to allow revell...
DATE: Jun 27, 2015
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A Bill banning the smoking of electronic cigarettes indoors has been introduced to Parliament.
The Tobacco Control Bill 2015 also seeks to ban the sale of flavoured tobacco products — excluding menthols — and, similar to moves elsewhere in the world,...
DATE: Jun 27, 2015
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell hopped aboard a public ferry yesterday morning to hear, first-hand, complaints about the service by morning commuters.
The ferry servicing Watford, Cavello and Rockaway hit the headlines this week as passengers des...
DATE: Jun 27, 2015
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
In a salute to the visionary principal who forged Clearwater Middle School into an institution, the school has named its media and resource centre in honour of Dr Charlotte Ming.
A mural of the late educator, who died in 2013, was created by Chewstic...
DATE: Jun 26, 2015
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
With her uncanny ability to connect with her students and determination to make teaching fun, Hilary Lightbourne was the “kid whisperer”.
Mrs Lightbourne, who died earlier this month, is being fondly remembered for more than three decades as a popula...
DATE: Jun 26, 2015
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A raft of new discoveries on Smith’s Island have helped archaeologists paint a clearer picture of what life was like for Bermuda’s earliest settlers.
The team led by Michael Jarvis from the University of Rochester have spent the last five weeks excav...
DATE: Jun 26, 2015
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A telecoms engineer has become the first Bermudian to take part in an international freediving competition.
Scott Amos set a string of national freedive records during the Deja Blue freediving event held in Grand Cayman last month.
His feat is even m...
DATE: Jun 26, 2015
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Flying around the Great Sound with Oracle Team USA, defender of the America’s Cup, proved to be an “awesome” and “exhilarating” experience for Premier Michael Dunkley.
After being fully kitted out and given a safety orientation, the Premier spent nea...
DATE: Jun 26, 2015
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Event
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Much-anticipated financial details have been released by the Bermuda Hospitals Board, showing some success in cutting costs.
In a guardedly optimistic assessment, BHB chairman Jonathan Brewin said that two years ago BHB had expected to run out of cas...
DATE: Jun 26, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The gems of St David’s will be in easy reach of summer visitors, thanks to a bus service that will link up with the new “beach bus” shuttling guests around the fringe attractions of St George’s.
The service, which starts up in July and will run in ta...
DATE: Jun 26, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell