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Ensign Dan Crouch, a Bermudian, and serves in the US Navy aboard oceanographic survey ship
By Cooper Stevenson
The process of applying to colleges and figuring out what you might want to do with your life is a hard one.
However, for Dan Crouch, the d...
DATE: Jan 06, 2014
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“Education is important enough to have two people focusing on it,” according to the new Minister and Junior Minister of Education.
Speaking exclusively with The Royal Gazette since the Cabinet shuffle last year, Dr Grant Gibbons, Minister of Educatio...
DATE: Jan 06, 2014
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The first Sunday liquor sales by stores got cautiously underway yesterday, with many shoppers unsure of whether it had actually become legal.
Decried by some and welcomed by others, the relaxing of the law resulted in simply another regular day of bu...
DATE: Jan 06, 2014
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Last week’s spate of gale force winds kept Bermuda Maritime Operations busy, with several boats submerged by rains and broken from their moorings.
Stormy conditions that peaked on Friday abated over the weekend, and the service reported a quiet day y...
DATE: Jan 06, 2014
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“Gentle giant” Nikko Robinson-Woodley, the Island’s first road fatality of 2014, was last night mourned by family and colleagues from the Department of Marine and Ports.
The accident that claimed his life just shy of his 22nd birthday has also left a...
DATE: Jan 06, 2014
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Mark Pettingill, the Attorney General, was last night chastised by his Opposition counterpart for speaking out after cannabis charges were dropped against the son of a fellow Minister.
The Progressive Labour Party’s Kim Wilson, former Attorney Genera...
DATE: Jan 06, 2014
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Police are investigating a possibly gang-fuelled disturbance at the St David’s Cricket Club last night at the close of a football game.
A man said to have come from Somerset Cricket Club was struck in the head shortly after 5pm when a group of cars c...
DATE: Jan 06, 2014
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Crime
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Jonathan Bell
Two teenage motorcyclists are being treated in hospital following a 3pm crash today on North Shore Road in Hamilton Parish.
Two motorcycles and a car collided near the Aquarium, according to police, who are advising motorists to expect “significant d...
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A 28-year-old man denied possessing more than two grams of cocaine with the intent to sell when he appeared at Magistrates’ Court today.
Stacey Simpson, of Plain Lane East, St George’s, is charged with possessing 2.32g of the controlled drug on April...
DATE: Jan 06, 2014
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The launch of a privately-owned rocket from the US Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida was visible from Bermuda earlier tonight.
Spotted shortly after 6pm, the slow-moving light could be seen to the southwest of the Island, moving from west t...
DATE: Jan 06, 2014
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