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Shadow Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell today said his party will revisit the issue of gambling on cruise ships if Government comes forward with more information on the subject.
Mr Crockwell said the Opposition rejected legislation to allow in-port g...
DATE: Nov 24, 2011
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Divers have discovered what appears to be a Bermuda Cedar tree root still planted in its original location - 53ft deep and nine miles to the north of Bermuda.
Now the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute and the Department of Conservation Servic...
DATE: Nov 24, 2011
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A 41-year-old man is in a critical condition in intensive care after a road crash this morning.
Police were a called to the crash, on Middle Road, Southampton, near Five Star Island, involving a motorcycle and a bus, at 7.20am today.
A Police spoke...
DATE: Nov 24, 2011
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A 73-year-old this morning denied repeatedly sexually exploiting a young girl over the course of five years.
The defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to four counts of sexually exploiting a young person under the age o...
DATE: Nov 24, 2011
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One Bermuda Alliance MP Mark Pettingill has handed his safe Opposition constituency to former political rival Jeff Sousa.
The OBA today unveiled Mr Pettingill as its General Election candidate for Warwick North East, where he faces a likely uphill ba...
DATE: Nov 24, 2011
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Visitor arrivals have increased for the third quarter running, an “excited” Tourism Minister announced this morning.
Minister Wayne Furbert said that all visitor arrival segments had recorded an increase in numbers for the third quarter of 2011.
“Tot...
DATE: Nov 24, 2011
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Bermuda's gross domestic product - which measures the total value of goods and services produced on the Island - fell for the second consecutive year, according to figures released this afternoon.
It means total GDP was $5,764,584,000 or $5.8 billion...
DATE: Nov 24, 2011
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A substance abuse programme hard-hit by funding cuts has appealed to the community for financial support.
“Our dilemma at present is that we have not been able to secure funding for our programmes, which cost us approximately $500,000 per annum,” sai...
DATE: Nov 24, 2011
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An American citizen was arrested for firearm possession at LF Wade International Airport on Tuesday.
Police and the airport would reveal no details of the incident except that the suspect remains in custody pending a review of a file by the Departmen...
DATE: Nov 24, 2011
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Tim Smith
When Bermuda Institute student Paul DeShields, 16, first started taking part in a special island wide high school fitness programme, other students had to encourage him to keep going through the training exercises.
Two years later, it was Mr DeShield...
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