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Bermuda’s chess competitors, fresh from international exposure the 41st Chess Olympiad in Norway, are now calling on Government to renew its support for the game.
Chess overseas is afforded television coverage, player Michael Webb noted, with chess m...
DATE: Aug 26, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A badly damaged car was found unoccupied and crashed into a utility pole at about 2.20am today, when police responded to a reported collision near Jews Bay in Southampton.
The car had “extensive front end damage” and had to be towed from the scene on...
DATE: Aug 26, 2014
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Premier Michael Dunkley has visited Indian and Mexican diplomats in New York in a bid to drum up business for Bermuda.
Mr Dunkley met Ambassador Dnyaneshwar Mulay and Mexican Ambassador Sandra Fuentes-Berain at their New York consulates on Friday.
An...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermuda’s security is too important to be used as “a political football”, a group of former Bermuda Regiment commanding officers warned last night.
And the group — known as The Nine Colonels — appealed for Premier and National Security Minister Micha...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A surgical first for Bermuda could help a hospital patient paralysed from the neck down breathe on his own.
And that means the young man — who has been in the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for several years after an accident and can only breathe ...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce (BEST) has expressed concern about a notice threatening the removal of a tree behind the old Magistrates’ Court building.
According to a notice published on page 33 of the August 21 edition of The Ro...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014
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Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A total of $7500 has been awarded to two students by Hamilton Parish Council.
Sarai Hines won a Members’ Scholarship worth $5000, while Jashun Bean was awarded a bursary of $2500.
Ms Hines is studying fine arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Art...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Young Bermudian Amy Peniston has been working independently as a digital artist, designing websites for companies and individuals in Bermuda and the US.
Just 23 years old, she has been working as a website designer since 2012 despite a college backgr...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014
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A Bermuda private school has notched up its best results ever in English school exams.
Pupils at the Bermuda High School for Girls recorded a 100 per cent pass rate in the 2013/14 round of the exams — formerly known as O Levels.
A total of 21 per cen...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A woman who took more than $10,000 from her employer has been given a conditional discharge.
Paulette Smith, 62, admitted intent to defraud and appeared at Magistrates’ Court on Friday morning.
Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner heard the company, wh...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014
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