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The charity site Volunteer.bm, run by the Centre on Philanthropy to connect residents with their most ideal volunteering opportunities, is being backed by HSBC Bermuda — which now has 55 members of staff signed up.
There are currently 4,850 volunteer...
DATE: Mar 19, 2014
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Online commentators reacted with outrage after revelations that Hamilton’s Seabright sewage outfall was contaminating recreational waters around nearby beaches during heavy winds and swell.
Many raised concerns over the implications for tourism, whil...
DATE: Mar 19, 2014
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Bermuda has too dense of a population to continue disposing of sewage via untreated offshore outfalls, according to Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce (BEST) chairman, Stuart Hayward.
Responding to revelations that Hamilton’s Seabright se...
DATE: Mar 19, 2014
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A group of Bermuda’s young people have signed a declaration committing themselves to protecting the Sargasso Sea.
Students taking part in the 2014 Bermuda Zoological Society (BZS) Environmental Youth Conference collaborated on the declaration and sig...
DATE: Mar 19, 2014
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A second man has been charged in relation to an armed burglary last Friday in which one of the men allegedly shot himself.
Umdae Woolridge, of Middle Terrace Road, Pembroke, was charged with entering a home on North Shore Road as a trespasser and ste...
DATE: Mar 19, 2014
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The decline of Bermuda’s bee population has prompted environmentalists to organise a fair dedicated to the flying insects.
The event will be held at Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute on Saturday, April 12, from 11am to 3.45pm, with a short fil...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda has so far donated close to $500,000 to the Philippines recovery effort in the wake of last year’s devastating Typhoon Haiyan.
This includes $65,000 raised by ANCOP, or Answering the Cry of the Poor, and $60,000 from the Association of Filipi...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Upcoming developments to the Island’s roads have been revealed by Public Works Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin in her Budget brief, delivered at the House of Assembly.
Road improvements have been allocated $4.75 million for the coming fiscal year, t...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda stargazers could help an international astronomy body track a rare event.
An asteroid is due to block out one of the brightest stars in the sky — and volunteers have been asked to help follow and time its progress.
Astronomers from the Intern...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Bermuda Housing Corporation is currently in “sensitive discussions with enthusiastic, interested investors” for the Grand Atlantic Development.
Just one unit was sold at the Warwick site, criticised as a “white elephant” after consumers failed to...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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