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A five-foot Galapagos shark named Desmond has been released back into the ocean by staff at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo.
The animal had developed a lesion on his nose in the North Rock Tank, where he had lived for two years, a sign that he w...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Murder victim Stefan Burgess was an “amazing” father who wanted to turn his life around following the birth of his daughter, a Supreme Court jury has been told.
Mr Burgess, 24, from Frog Lane, Devonshire, was gunned down while attending a birthday pa...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A global online activist network has launched a campaign to get the Bermuda Government to implement the “Blue Halo” proposal to turn the sea around the Island into a protected environmental zone.
Avaaz.org says on its website: “Bermuda is on the verg...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Schoolchildren learned dining etiquette over a meal at businesses around the Island, as part of their last class in the Bermuda Hospitality Institute’s annual “Hospitality Skills = Life Skills” Programme.
Now in its fourth year, the programme aims to...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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Tourism
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Hospital staff have raised more than $10,000 for a fund-raising campaign to help pay for the new building at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. A group of staff put on an event showcasing the talents of hospital workers at the Ruth Seaton James A...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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Bermuda has a “moral responsibility” to rebuild the desecrated tombstones at Tucker’s Town or at least “tastefully” mark where they stood, according to a charity boss.
Jennifer Gray, executive director of the Bermuda National Trust, said the organisa...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A Devonshire man has been charged with uttering threatening words to a woman.
Appearing in Magistrates’ Court this morning, Chesterfield Robinson, 54, denied telling Sharon Alves: “I’m gonna kill you, you f****** b****, you wait and see, I ain’t gonn...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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The son of a well-known Bermuda arts figure has died in the US.
Neil Gibson, son of actress, producer and director Elsbeth Gibson, died in February.
Mr Gibson, who lived in Bermuda as a child and attended the Whitney Institute, was a regular visitor ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A courtroom sketch has resurfaced from a high-profile and controversial 1986 Bermuda case in which Israeli arms dealers suspected of trading with Iran drew world headlines with their deportation from the Island.
The sketch has joined 30 years’ worth ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Island may need warning flags to alert beachgoers of hazardous sewage waste, the environmental group Greenrock has suggested.
The organisation also branded media coverage of the dumping of raw sewage within sight of the Island’s shores “painful a...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
