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Youngsters got the chance to pick their own Halloween pumpkin down at Astwood Park yesterday.
A field full of around 600 pumpkins had been saved from Hurricane Gonzalo by Junior Hill and his workers who carried out an early harvest. The pumpkins were...
DATE: Oct 25, 2014
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The crew of HMS Argyll was presented with a bottle of Goslings Black Rum and Bermuda souvenirs as a token of thanks as they left the Island this week.
On Tuesday evening Governor George Fergusson, his wife Margaret Fergusson and the Junior Minister f...
DATE: Oct 25, 2014
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For decades conservationists believed Bermuda’s endemic land snail, Poecilozonites bermudensis, was extinct.
They feared it had become a victim of invasive predators.
But now, around 40 years after its last sighting in the wild, a healthy colony of t...
DATE: Oct 25, 2014
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A toddler who underwent lifesaving surgery thanks to a Bermudian doctor has died after returning to his home in Nicaragua.
Keyler Lopez-Mendoza passed away yesterday at his home in Malacal village just two months after he was treated in Toronto for t...
DATE: Oct 25, 2014
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Michael Dunkley called on Bermudians to continue the “demonstration of strength and unity” shown in the wake of Hurricane Gonzalo.
The Premier praised the responses of emergency services in the aftermath of this month’s storms, and offered sympathy t...
DATE: Oct 25, 2014
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There is no storm brewing in the wake of Hurricane Gonzalo, according to Bermuda Weather Service director Kimberley Zuill — who urged residents to use the BWS website as their official source of weather news.
Ms Zuill reported a stressful week of dea...
DATE: Oct 25, 2014
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Belco workers are continuing to reconnect houses left in the dark by Hurricane Gonzalo and Tropical Storm Fay, after numbers surged during the week with rains causing a number of poles to short out.
As of today, Devonshire was the worst-hit, with mor...
DATE: Oct 25, 2014
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Hamilton’s main post office facility has been tested and cleared for asbestos, according to a Public Works spokesman.
The Royal Gazette understands that some staff at the General Post Office had voiced concerns about possible asbestos in the building...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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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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