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A team of local musicians, ranging in age from nine to 62, will bring the sounds of Bermuda to New York’s Collective School of Music when they set off for ten days of cultural interchange.
“It’s a musical, percussion and cultural exchange programme,”...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
Part of Valley Road in Paget had to be closed after a fire broke out at a apartment building.
Three Bermuda Fire and Rescue trucks tackled yesterday’s blaze, which started at about 3.20pm.
It is believed the fire started in the lower apartment of t...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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A gathering of personnel from the former US Naval Air Base will travel to the Island to reminisce on glory days, just short of 20 years since the East End facility was handed over to Bermuda.
So far, 30 people have signed up for this September’s reu...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
A shopkeeping couple accused of discriminating against a foreign customer, and insulting her because of her national origin, have had their names cleared by the Human Rights Tribunal.
However, part of the complaint would have stood — if it hadn’t bee...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A pensions freeze will not affect social insurance pensions, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday.
A Ministry spokesman explained that a new Bill aimed at axeing regular cost of living increases would apply only to the pension funds for civil serva...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A grandfather is enjoying the fruits of four years of hard work after finally managing to grow grapes in his yard.
Green-fingered Raphael Barnett, 59, cultivated the crop at his home in Pembroke from a cutting.
“I’m not sure of the variety — I got t...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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A 20-year-old man, Jonathan Burch-DeCosta, has died as a result of a crash in the early hours of Sunday.
Mr Burch-DeCosta’s passing marks the sixth road fatality of 2014, after the death on May 22 of 60-year-old US visitor Daniel Bruce Laubacher foll...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A mini exhibit is now open at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute detailing the $64 million-worth of treasure recently recovered from a sunken warship by a marine company directed by former Premier David Saul.
Dr Saul, director of Odyssey Ma...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Sending people to jail for debt is “an exceptional occurrence”, the Island’s top judge said yesterday.
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley said existing laws contained “a general prohibition on imprisonment for debt.”
Although a section of the same 1973 law al...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A member of Greenrock Bermuda joined almost 100 representatives from 60 other countries at the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) General Assembly in Copenhagen.
Abbie Caldas, manager for the Bermuda Eco-Schools programme, took part in a co...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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Environment
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