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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.
That number of Bermudians depending on Government’s help ...
DATE: Mar 14, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Island has been the named the top wreck diving destination in the region by a prestige magazine.
Scuba Diving singled out Bermuda as the best place for wrecks in the Caribbean and Atlantic.
And the wreck of the luxury liner Cristobal Colon, which...
DATE: Mar 14, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Police have dismissed Opposition claims that an investigation into alleged illegal gaming at a betting shop owned by PLP leader Marc Bean was politically motivated.
And Acting Police Commissioner Mike Jackman has also rubbished suggestions by the par...
DATE: Mar 14, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermuda’s top archaeologist is being urged to explain why he thought historic tombstones at Tucker’s Point Golf Club were modern constructions, by the descendants of some of those buried there.
Tucker’s Town Historical Society has uncovered photograp...
DATE: Mar 13, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
David Liittschwager first started taking close-ups of small patches of ground to simplify his understanding of the world. The result was far from simple. He found worlds within worlds.
Photographs from this work, looking a biodiversity, can be found ...
DATE: Mar 13, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Education Minister Grant Gibbons received both praise and criticism earlier this week as he delivered the budget brief for Education.
Shadow Education Minister Walton Brown said that overall the Ministry appeared to be headed in the right direction b...
DATE: Mar 13, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A video by teen filmmaker Marquedelle Philip Rodriguez, aimed at provoking thought on consumerism and its discontents, has been warmly received by more than 800 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Following the United Nations Internationa...
DATE: Mar 13, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Premier Craig Cannonier led condolences in the House of Assembly for a couple found dead at their St George’s home on Monday.
Mr Cannonier told MPs that Myron Anthony Robinson and wife Regina lived only two doors away from him.
He added: “She was a p...
DATE: Mar 13, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The first six names for the City of Hamilton’s Walkway of Fame have been unveiled.
Celebrated musician Stan (Lord Necktie) Seymour, PALS founder Hilary Soares, educator Edwin Skinner and seamstress Hazel Christopher will each receive their own plaque...
DATE: Mar 13, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A former Government Minister has apologised to MPs for “unparliamentary” language during a Budget debate on Monday.
OBA MP Sylvan Richards apologised to Speaker Randy Horton and the House after Mr Horton pulled him up for a comment directed at an Opp...
DATE: Mar 13, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
