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AXIS Capital has donated $1 million to the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust (BHCT), bringing the group’s funds to $31 million.
The new acute care wing at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital will require a $40 million payout to contractors Paget Heal...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Birdwatchers at the weekend flocked to a rare sighting of ducks from Central and South America.
A group of 13 black-bellied whistling ducks landed at Port Royal Golf Course — only the second sighting of the breed on record in Bermuda. Audubon Society...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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The Department of Environmental Protection will be closed all day tomorrow for a staff retreat.
The closure affects the offices at the Botanical Gardens in Paget, the Government Marketing Centre at Prospect, Devonshire and the Fisheries Office, Cone...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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The new management company for Tobacco Bay in St George’s is aiming to set the standard for Bermuda beach developments by offering “the most comprehensive” range of activities on a public beach.
Now managing Tobacco Bay is “new beach experience manag...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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The Menuhin Foundation of Bermuda will hold its annual ‘Passport to a World of Wines’ fundraiser on June 28 at the Newstead Belmont Hotel to help in its goal of providing free music lessons to Bermudian pupils.
Foundation chairperson, Terri Allison, ...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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The Catlin End-to-End Walk raised more than $300,000 for a host of local charities.
The achievement was announced last night during an awards ceremony at the Hamilton Princess.
Donations of $35,000 each went to the Adult Education School, Centre Agai...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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The widow of world-famous author and ocean conservationist Peter Benchley will fly to Bermuda tomorrow to comfort the widow of sea legend Teddy Tucker.
Wendy Benchley, who carried on her husband’s work in protecting the seas, said she will fly from t...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A US comic who branded Bermuda “a tax loophole masquerading as a country” has been blasted by the Island’s business sector.
Real Time host Bill Maher launched his attack on the Island on his top-rated show after a report on offshore jurisdictions was...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Five years after they were secretly smuggled into Bermuda a group of Uighurs are still no closer to being able to leave.
On the anniversary of their arrival from Guantánamo Bay, the four former detainees have no passports, and the governments of the ...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The volunteers, staff and organisations that helped to make Bermuda’s celebration of World Oceans Day a success are being praised for their “amazing work”.
Bermuda Zoological Society and Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo has said thank you to all thos...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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