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The Department of Tourism has launched the first phase of a new online tool aimed and making it easier to book Bermuda vacations.
The new online booking tool at the website GoToBermuda.com allows consumers to search for locations to stay, and conveni...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Environmentalists are campaigning for retailers to charge customers for plastic bags, and are looking for support from the public.
Greenrock, together with the Bermuda Marine Debris Taskforce, will celebrate Earth Day on Monday with the launch of a n...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A boat stranded along Ferry Reach is not abandoned — and its owner has appealed for it to be left alone after it was broken into.
“Nobody abandons a $120,000 boat,” said Oluf Ingemann whose 40ft trawler was left high and dry in 2010 by Hurricane Igor...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Animal wardens are yet to determine how caged ducklings, found lifeless in a Botanical Gardens enclosure, died.
The birds, which were found dead on April 8, have been examined with no answers forthcoming.
A Parks Department spokeswoman said: “We do n...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Sticking to an improbable story for shoplifting $20 of cosmetics resulted in a court date for a 23-year-old mother of two.
Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner told Donita Smith he had been willing to dismiss her case with a conditional discharge.
Inst...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A “repeat offender” with a history of mental illness and addiction was jailed for three years.
Tracyston Mallory, 26, of Boundary Crescent, Devonshire, admitted stealing liquor and jewellery totalling $4,770, from Devonshire homes.
The thefts occurre...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Westgate inmate whose punch sent another prisoner to hospital insisted yesterday that he hadn’t meant to “hit him hard”.
Pelealkhai Williams said he struck George Dyer on March 4 because he had been “mouthing off”.
The 28-year-old punched Dyer in t...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Changes to the road network at Dockyard have left irate taxi drivers claiming they are no longer able to provide a quality service to Island visitors.
Previously, taxis were able to queue up at King’s Wharf alongside a berthed liner, enabling cruise ...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A lockdown was imposed at LF Wade International Airport following the discovery of a suspicious package.
Midday traffic was kept out while police and fire officers investigated. A spokesman described the procedure, in response to an abandoned bag, as...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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The Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) and the Bermuda Organ and Tissue Donor Association (BOTDA) will next week reach out to the public to become donors.
A spokeswoman for the groups said that while advances in medical science have made transplant surger...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
