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The City Market is in its new location now housed within Pier 6 on Front Street it is a great place to buy local farm produce, home jewelery, organic health supplements, organic spices, home made knitted goods and great local chefs are on hand to sel...
DATE: Mar 15, 2014
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A serial con man who stole $70,000 from a senior to impress a younger woman was has been jailed for six years.
Xavier Trace Douglas, 52, told the court he committed the offence because he wanted to help a young mother who he met, but Puisne Judge Car...
DATE: Mar 15, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government is allowing for darker rear windows on taxis, which will cut down on air conditioning and allow more privacy for passengers.
Transport Minister Shawn Crockwell said the policy switch would allow the back windows on taxis, mini buses and li...
DATE: Mar 15, 2014
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Deputy Police Commissioner Mike Jackman has retired after 32 years on the job.
The Barbados-born officer joined the Bermuda Police Service in 1982 as a PC and rose to the second-highest rank in the force in 2009.
Mr Jackman was awarded the Overseas T...
DATE: Mar 15, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
• A story in yesterday’s Royal Gazette stated that members of the General Society of Colonial Wars intended to visit the Island in May of this year. In fact the groups is planning to bring around 300 of its members to Bermuda in May 2015.
DATE: Mar 15, 2014
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Government plans to cut the Mirrors youth development programme loose as an independent entity, according to Community Minister Wayne Scott.
And the overseas organisation on which Mirrors is based — Uncommon Results — has had its consultancy budget t...
DATE: Mar 15, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
Financial Assistance will have dealt out an “unprecedented” $50 million to roughly 2,680 residents in need by the close of the current fiscal year, according to Community Minister Wayne Scott.
The number of Bermudians depending on Government’s help i...
DATE: Mar 15, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
The Smoke Shop owner Michael Heslop is working to bring back Bermuda’s first cash crop — tobacco — albeit in a smaller scale.
Mr Heslop has spent the last few months growing local tobacco for sale in his store in the Washington Mall.
“This is all goi...
DATE: Mar 15, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
With more than 80 students and relatives having their hair shaved off on St Baldrick’s Day, Saltus Grammar School has smashed through its original goal of raising $120,000 for the cancer charity.
Last night the total pledged was nearly $200,000. Furt...
DATE: Mar 15, 2014
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Governor George Fergusson buys the first tag for the Lions Club of Bermuda White Cane Tag Day from Lions past district governor 20k2 Stephen Dean and president of the Hamilton Lions Club Dai James. The tag day will be held throughout the Island, t...
DATE: Mar 14, 2014
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