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The One Bermuda Alliance will elect two new deputy chairmen at a special general meeting tomorrow.
Running on joint tickets for the positions are Senator Lynne Woolridge and Sylvia Hayward-Harris as one team and MP Susan Jackson and Karen Magnum as t...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Three sub-post offices are to be shut down in a bid to make the service more cost effective.
At a press conference this afternoon, Acting Premier Michael Dunkley said the three branches — at St. David’s, Harrington Sound and Somerset Bridge — will cl...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
A Warwick Academy pupil has been named number one after a gruelling test of maths skills.
Anna Francoeur, aged 11, came out on top and scooped the $2000 top prize after 220 schoolchildren took part in the competition, the tenth of its kind.
One of th...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A new women’s rifle drill team set to make its debut at the annual Bermuda Day Parade has got a seal of approval from the wives of Governor George Fergusson and Premier Craig Cannonier.
Margaret Fergusson and Antoinette Cannonier joined forces to ins...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
Establishing conditions for job creation, reducing the cost of living and widening the scope of human rights are just three accomplishments touted by Premier Craig Cannonier as evidence that his Government is “getting the job done”.
In an opinion pri...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Heritage Month is set to run through May 31 as a celebration of Bermuda’s historical treasures. The month was launched with a reception at City Hall.
“All events planned this year are uniquely based on the theme and to promote our many heritage sites...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A $1.5 million Lloyd’s Register survey of the tugboat Powerful has been labelled “a lot of money” and “a lot of waste.”
Chief engineer Cornell Simmons said the $1.5 million figure is “still up in the air” after he and his crew have spent the past eig...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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Devil’s Hole recently became the focus of a team of researchers studying microbiology, sparking a scientific journal which was published this month.
A spokeswoman for the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) described Devil’s Hole as a “natural...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A multi-purpose sports court in St George’s is set to formally open next month following a successful fundraising campaign.
The court, erected for students at St George’s Preparatory School, was completed earlier this year following a drive to raise ...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
But Mayor and board were ‘not prepared to discuss their tactics’
By Gareth Finighan
Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy is hopeful he will not be forced to shut down the Corporation of Hamilton following a crisis meeting with the municipality this wee...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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