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Four students have received grants to help them push for careers in the financial services industry, under a new scheme set up in memory of a popular casualty underwriter.
Three Berkeley Institute students and one from CedarBridge Academy will all re...
DATE: Apr 26, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Traffic delays are expected on King Street as Belco crews work to repair a damaged cable.
Work to an underground cable near Bermuda Fire Station is now underway and is expected to continue through rush hour.
Said a Belco spokeswoman: "One lane will b...
DATE: Apr 26, 2012
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A blind 78-year-old veteran is battling to get funds to visit experts in the United States he hopes could restore some of his vision.
Alan Burrows, a former captain of Bermuda Regiment who has been diagnosed with end-stage glaucoma and lost his visio...
DATE: Apr 26, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Members of Bermuda Educators’ Council resigned en-bloc amid claims of union and political interference, according to documents leaked to The Royal Gazette.
Minutes from a meeting of the group, which oversees the licensing of teachers, show members co...
DATE: Apr 26, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A 13-year-old boy was hurt in a collision with a motorcycle at 3.45pm on Monday.
He was a pedestrian on Middle Road in Southampton when the incident occurred near the junction with Heron View Lane, at 3.45pm.
“The pedestrian, a 13-year-old Southampt...
DATE: Apr 26, 2012
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Addiction treatment organisation Caron Bermuda will host a gala dinner to honour the contributions of Philip Butterfield, the soon-to-retire head of Bank of Bermuda.
The organisation’s chairman Rees Fletcher said the May 18 event will salute Mr Butte...
DATE: Apr 26, 2012
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Hamilton’s Par-la-Ville Park was renamed Queen Elizabeth Park in a ceremony over the weekend.
The event was hosted by city Mayor Charles Gosling and attended by Governor Richard Gozney and Minister of Public Works Michael Weeks in the capacity of Act...
DATE: Apr 26, 2012
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Bermuda’s “visionary innovators” — from web designers to the inventor of a shark suit — will be celebrated as part of World Intellectual Property Day.
The Intellectual Property Office has teemed up with the Ministry of Business Development for Thursd...
DATE: Apr 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Even checking the time on a phone is enough to get a driver convicted, a bus operator was told in Magistrates’ Court.
Jevon Thomas was fined $300 for the December 23 offence.
The 32-year-old said he had been driving buses for five years and had a cle...
DATE: Apr 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A 29-year-old who threatened police with a shooting gesture was sentenced to ten days in jail.
Rashad Cooper, of Pembroke, admitted to the threatening behaviour in Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
He made the gesture outside Spinning Wheel on Saturday n...
DATE: Apr 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell