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“Son of Bermuda” St George Tucker, the law professor who alerted American patriot leaders to a store of gunpowder in Bermuda, has been commemorated at a ceremony in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.
The Bermuda-born American patriot was Professor of L...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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Another day without power — that was the case for thousands of residents yesterday.
Some 1,500 lost their electricity after Tropical Storm Fay swept across the Island, and many more after Hurricane Gonzalo.
However, the arrival of additional CARILEC ...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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Residents burning garden waste after Hurricane Gonzalo are being reminded that certain vegetation can give off toxic fumes if set on fire.
Poisonous plants such as Mexican pepper, oleander, pencil tree and poison ivy should not be burned, advised th...
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An act of kindness was born out of tragedy when a Hamilton restaurant manager decided to pay for a customer’s bill out of her own pocket.
Lindsey Durham, a manager at Bermuda Restaurant Group, was working at Rosa’s Tex Mex restaurant on the Sunday a...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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Marc Bean last night won an overwhelming endorsement to continue as leader of the Progressive Labour Party.
He was challenged by Shaow External Affairs Minister Walton Brown, but party delegates voted 85-9 for Mr Bean to continue as leader.
Meanwhile...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
The race is on for St George as crews work to prepare the Olde Towne for the arrival of the cruise ship Regatta next week.
Hurricane Gonzalo and Tropical Storm Fay caused significant damage to the town and Corporation of St George workers has been bu...
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The cahow colony on Nonsuch Island escaped from Hurricane Gonzalo unscathed and the area is ready for the imminent arrival of our national bird for the next breeding season.
Conservation experts have been checking over the site, part of the Castle H...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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Government should draft a “multiyear deficit reduction strategy” in tandem with the labour movement, Bermuda Public Services Union president Jason Hayward has suggested.
The BPSU remains opposed to privatising, outsourcing and mutualising in the publ...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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Government will join with Bermuda’s unions to form a committee that will examine civil service reforms, as labour organisations remain staunchly opposed to the Public Bodies Reform Act in its present form.
The Bermuda Trade Union Congress (BTUC) repo...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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