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Residents and visitors are being invited to feel the rhythms of Bermuda’s Gombey troupes at this year’s Gombey Festival.
The annual festival, put on by the Department of Cultural Affairs, will be held tomorrow at the WER Joell Tennis Stadium. The eve...
DATE: Sep 21, 2012
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The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance is retaining its overall seven-point lead in the popular vote over the ruling party as the deadline for the general election looms.
In the latest poll by MindMaps, commissioned by The Royal Gazette, 45 percent of r...
DATE: Sep 21, 2012
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Homosexuality and Christianity will cross paths next week at the screening of a 2007 American film ‘For the Bible Tells Me So’.
The Rainbow Alliance of Bermuda will be hosting the movie night at Chewstick on September 27.
The film explores religion a...
DATE: Sep 21, 2012
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A resident accused of breaking a dispersal order was released on bail yesterday after his lawyer challenged the police’s action on constitutional grounds.
Vernon Symonds, 36, had been in custody, accused of refusing to comply with an order to leave W...
DATE: Sep 21, 2012
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Tim Smith
United Bermuda Party leader Kim Swan expressed his sadness at Tuesday’s fatal road accident at the spot where he had a ‘near death experience’ of his own.
Mr Swan called for the Road Safety Council to evaluate the stretch of road near to Terceira’s g...
DATE: Sep 21, 2012
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A man hailed as one of the Island’s promising footballers has been jailed, on a charge of handling nearly $50,000 worth of drugs while working as an airport security officer.
Dandy Town player George Dyer faced a possible ten years’ imprisonment, aft...
DATE: Sep 21, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A teenager who swore at police after drinking at a college party has been warned by a Magistrate to refrain from such behaviour in future.
Joshua Hughes, 18, of Middle Road, Southampton, admitted in Magistrates’ Court that he used offensive words at ...
DATE: Sep 21, 2012
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Term limits should be scrapped and long term residents given clear guidelines as to how they can obtain Bermuda status, the United Bermuda Party says.
Charlie Swan, one of the two remaining UBP MPs said that his party believed that Government’s term ...
DATE: Sep 21, 2012
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The roster of thousands from Bermuda who served in the First and Second World Wars will acquire at least 80 more names over the next week.
“I've seen the pictures, but this is the first time I've been in front of it,” said master mason David West, wh...
DATE: Sep 21, 2012
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Jonathan Bell
The body of Bermuda Regiment Major Christian Wheddon was returned to Bermuda last night, ahead of his funeral next week.
In a repatriation ceremony, Major Wheddon’s coffin was draped in a Union flag and taken off the British Airways aircraft, before ...
DATE: Sep 21, 2012
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AUTHOR:
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