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Severe winter weather caused travel chaos over the weekend, affecting many Bermudians trying to get home from the US after the holidays.
Shawnette Somner, 51, told The Royal Gazette how her US Airways flight turned back to Philadelphia just 160 miles...
DATE: Jan 07, 2014
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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda’s special links with celebrated author Samuel Clemens — better known as Mark Twain — are to be explored this month, thanks to a collaboration with a prestigious US museum dedicated to Twain’s life and legacy.
Masterworks Museum will bring Mar...
DATE: Jan 07, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
Trash collectors will not be picking up Christmas trees until later this month — and the Ministry of Public Works is asking householders not to put them out for collection until nearer the dates.
An incorrect story stating that tree collection would ...
DATE: Jan 07, 2014
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After years of neglect, the St George’s Golf Course is getting a make over from a team of four workers under the direction of the Parks Department.
“When you believe, you can achieve,” said St George’s North MP Kenneth Bascome, as the long grass was ...
DATE: Jan 07, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
Following complaints from Marsh Folly workers of illegal dumping at the facility, Government has issued a reminder that the offence now carries a $10,000 fine.
The Department of Waste Management is also installing cameras to watch “dumping hot spots ...
DATE: Jan 06, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
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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Education
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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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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
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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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
“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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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
