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Few people intend to make efforts to conserve electricity despite increasing energy costs.
The Royal Gazette took to the streets of Hamilton to ask people what they thought of growing energy bills after it was revealed the cost of electricity rose b...
DATE: May 13, 2013
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
When the airhorn blows to start Bermuda’s most popular half-marathon on May 24, it will be the 22nd time veteran marathoner Calvin Steede has set off in the race.
The 54-year-old Bermudian has run more than 100 full marathons at home, in Boston, New ...
DATE: May 11, 2013
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Public services will be disrupted on Monday morning when Government workers attend a union meeting.
The Bermuda Industrial Union has called on members to attend the 10am meeting so that they can be briefed on the status of negotiations with Governme...
DATE: May 11, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg breached diplomatic protocol when he endorsed the One Bermuda Alliance Government at the christening of the Norwegian Breakaway, according to former United Bermuda Party leader Kim Swan.
Mr Bloomberg's comments, ...
DATE: May 11, 2013
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Politics
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Nurse has replaced stolen Badges of Honour
By Jonathan Bell
One of Bermuda’s best-known nurses managed to replace her beloved Queen’s Badges of Honour after her home was ransacked by a teen burglar.
But retired nurse Cynthia DeSilva, 75, no longer ke...
DATE: May 11, 2013
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Does your dad deserve to be more dapper?
This month, The Royal Gazette will be giving away a full makeover to one deserving dad as part of our “Father’s Day Makeover Contest”.
The selected Grand Prize winner will earn an exclusive VIP makeover by TK ...
DATE: May 11, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Pinpointing an evidential trail on an erroneous criminal conviction would be the only way to get a drug conviction corrected.
This from Attorney General Mark Pettingill on the case of Mark Druell Hall who admitted possessing nine grams of cannabis in...
DATE: May 11, 2013
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A St George’s man who threatened to kill his former girlfriend has been jailed for six months by a Supreme Court judge.
Detroy Smith, 27, admitted making the threat to Mikaela Pearman on October 24 last year during an internet exchange between the co...
DATE: May 11, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Plans to turn a Paget home into a veterinary office have been submitted to the Department of Planning.
The planning application, submitted by the Silver Moon Trust, would turn the basement level of the house ‘Netherlands’ on The Lane into a veterinar...
DATE: May 11, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda’s media council has expressed its opposition to proposals to regulate the press in the UK following the Leveson inquiry.
A statement from the Media Council said the UK Government proposals had “serious implications for press freedom and would...
DATE: May 11, 2013
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