153469 results returned for search: "" category "News"
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The United Nations launched an international design competition Friday for a permanent memorial to victims of slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The memorial will be constructed at UN headquarters in New York and the comp...
DATE: Oct 01, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
There is new hope for the future of Willowbank as the conference centre looks set to remain in use after the hotel has closed.
The Government-run Mirrors programme has been informed that they can continue to use the hotel’s facilities for their work ...
DATE: Oct 01, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Relatives paid tribute to five pilots who drowned in 1927 in a “touching” ceremony held yesterday afternoon in St George’s.
Sylvia Polly Smith attended the Guild of Holy Compassion ceremony in honour of her uncle, Edgar Smith.
He was one of the men ...
DATE: Oct 01, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
A teenaged burglar with a history of offences has been jailed for six months in Magistrates’ Court.
Jaymi O’Brian Edwards, 19, of Southampton, admitted two counts of burglary. He said he had been driven by the need to pay his Bermuda College tuition ...
DATE: Oct 01, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Twelve percent of residents have lost a job in the last year, according to a new poll.
Most of those who had their jobs axed were black men and the biggest out of work age group was 45 to 54 year olds.
The statistics came from a Mindmaps poll conduct...
DATE: Oct 01, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Preliminary results of tests on water tanks following the HWP blaze show little cause for concern, according to Government.
The level of polyaromatic hydrocarbons, a likely pollutant produced by the August fire, was said to be within “acceptable limi...
DATE: Oct 01, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Deputy Premier Derrick Burgess is to attend the 2011 Conservative Party Conference in the UK next week.
The Public Works Minister and his permanent secretary, Robert Horton, will leave the Island on Sunday for the Manchester conference.
The pair will...
DATE: Oct 01, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
More than half of residents think the economy is Bermuda’s biggest issue and only 11 percent have confidence in the way things are headed, according to a new poll.
A Mindmaps poll conducted for The Royal Gazette in July has found that the economy/ u...
DATE: Oct 01, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
The total value of goods imported to the Island continued to fall in the second quarter, dropping by $21 million to $232 million.
With the exception of an increase in clothing, footwear and miscellaneous items, expenditure on all other import commod...
DATE: Sep 30, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Hurricane Ophelia was upgraded to a Category 3 storm earlier today, and is currently expected to pass 150 miles to Bermuda’s East tomorrow evening.
Ophelia currently packs maximum strength winds of 100 knots (115mph), and at 12 noon today was about 6...
DATE: Sep 30, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
