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The OBA will launch a charm offensive in a bid to get its message across if a team of two win senior backroom positions with the party.
MP Susan Jackson and OBA secretary Karen Magnum have joined forces to stand for the two deputy chairman posts in t...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Government has responded to claims made by a tugboat engineer who labelled a recent $1.5 million Lloyd’s Register survey of the tugboat Powerful “a lot of money” and “a lot of waste.”
Cornell Simmons, Chief Engineer, raised his concerns over the grow...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Other
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The link connecting King Edward VII Memorial Hospital to the new Acute Care Wing has been completed, according to the Bermuda Hospitals Board.
BHB CEO Venetta Symonds said the step is a milestone, saying: “Although not in use yet, we now have a clear...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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A Warwick man who previously denied assault and wilful damage charges changed his plea in Magistrates’ Court this morning.
Chris Furbert Jr, 34, of Sunnyside Park, admitted assaulting former Southampton Rangers Cricket Club President Randy Raynor, wh...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Court
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Three sailors who endured a nightmare ordeal on the open seas after their yacht sank in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean have arrived safely in Bermuda.
British couple Leonard and Lisa Rorke, along with crew member Henri Worthalter, from Belgium, wer...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermuda’s swimmers have been applauded by Sports Minister Wayne Scott after picking up 22 medals at the CARIFTA Games in Aruba.
Minister Scott said that, like many Bermudians, he had anticipated the swimmers racking up a healthy number of medals — bu...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Voters who believe Government should hold a referendum on gaming have one more week to sign a petition calling for a ballot.
A pressure group launched the petition in January after Government dropped a pre-election pledge to let the public decide if ...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
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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CATEGORY:
Other
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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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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
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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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
