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A waiter who narrowly avoided a head-on collision with an ambulance has been banned from the road for impaired driving.
Alexandru Carastoian, 38, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to driving while impaired by alcohol early on Monday morning.
The c...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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Court
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Three young Bermudians have been awarded $5,000 each to help them continue their studies.
Miguel Mejias, Kate Cooper and Kascia White are this year’s recipients of the Steinhoff/Bermuda Zoological Society Scholarship for those pursuing degrees in env...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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Environment
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The Tall Ships Regatta could return to Bermuda in June 2017.
According to the Sail Training International website, organisers are looking for the regatta to visit six nations including Bermuda, but so far only the UK, US and Canada have been confirme...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
More than 200 boys were treated to a free back to school haircut yesterday as part of a community effort to help families.
Fifteen barbers volunteered to cut the hair of 230 boys, while more than 425 book bags were handed out to youngsters.
The eve...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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A leading expert on the effort to seek reparations for slavery is to give a lecture in Bermuda next week.
Professor Verene Shepherd, one of the vice chairs of the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC), is coming to the Island to discuss the group’s w...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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A patient who suffered an agonising wait for surgery at the Island’s only hospital is being taken to the Privy Council by those he successfully sued for damages.
Bermuda Hospitals Board has opted to go to the Island’s highest court of appeal, in Lond...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Families living in Bermuda have been left frustrated and upset by a huge backlog in British passport applications.
One family had to wait six months for a British passport for their newborn daughter.
While another was forced to cancel their trip to t...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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The Opposition is calling on Government to bail out a cash-strapped charity that provides a shelter for the victims of domestic abuse.
And the Progressive Labour Party also wants to set up a Gender Affairs Office to ensure that public funds were made...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An elderly woman was knocked down by a car as she walked across a pedestrian crossing in Southampton yesterday morning.
According to police, the incident took place at around 7.15am on Middle Road near the junction with Lighthouse Road.
“It appears t...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Public Works has pledged to reinstate a safety barrier across Tribe Road No 1, Southampton, two weeks after it was taken down.
The barrier had been implicated in the death of ten-year-old Tiffanelle Pitcher-Francis on January 11. Tiffanelle was kille...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
