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Orana the fossa, a popular creature at the Bermuda Aquarium and Zoo (BAMZ), had her enclosure dedicated to a reinsurance company who helped fund her home.
A fossa is a member of the mongoose family hailing from Madagascar, and is a “top predator” acc...
DATE: May 16, 2012
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A 16-year-old girl cross-examined a police officer in court and ended up getting her name cleared of allegations that she illegally used her iPod while riding her bike.
Latonia Fray, a Saltus student, researched the law relating to the charge before ...
DATE: May 16, 2012
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Students at the Bermuda High School took home both first and second prizes in the first Earth Day Student Video Competition.
The video “Plastic Bag” by BHS’s Lara Hetzel, following a single blue, plastic bag as it is blown into the ocean, took home t...
DATE: May 16, 2012
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU) and Pembroke Hamilton Club (PHC) president Chris Furbert has denied claims the Union has called in the $1.2 million it loaned to the iconic sports club.
In 2001 PHC borrowed $1,202,778 from the BIU to cover costs for th...
DATE: May 16, 2012
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Colin Thompson
A Regiment solder was caught with one-and-a-half pounds of cannabis as he tried to leave Jamaica after a recent expedition.
Jordan Shabazz, 19, from Euclid Avenue, Pembroke, was arrested at Sangster International Airport last Saturday and fined by a ...
DATE: May 16, 2012
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Developers behind the proposed St Regis Hotel have moved a step closer to breaking ground at the Hamilton site.
An agreement has been signed with “the international financial group responsible for advancing the monies needed for construction of the n...
DATE: May 15, 2012
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A former civil servant and his wife are today behind bars after being convicted of pocketing almost $543,000 of taxpayers’ money.
Kyril Burrows, 48, and Delcina Bean-Burrows, 49, engaged in what a prosecutor described as “a systematic ripping-off of ...
DATE: May 15, 2012
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It was chilly under the bright lights at Boston’s Fenway Park — but singing the US national anthem there was “terrific” and “one of the greatest feelings of my singing career”, Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert said.
A seasoned gospel singer from the ag...
DATE: May 15, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Allegations about faked documents dogged Kyril Burrows during two court cases prior to the one that saw him convicted of defrauding the Bermuda Government yesterday.
Prosecutors presented the jury in the latest trial with e-mails apparently created o...
DATE: May 15, 2012
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Kyril Burrows and Delcina Bean-Burrows went from well-respected careers in business and public service to the back of two prison vans yesterday.
The couple, who have two school-age children, were remanded into custody after being convicted of looting...
DATE: May 15, 2012
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