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The Bermuda Blood Donor Centre is marking World Blood Donor Day on June 14 by calling for at least 900 new donors.
Susan de Verteuil, pathology nurse at the centre, said there are currently about 1,100 donors in Bermuda, or two percent of the populat...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Three Sandys men have been appeared in Magistrates’ Court, charged with intentionally causing grievous bodily harm.
Joshua Bean, 21, Cordova Marshall, 21, and Antoine Tweed, 24, stood in the dock before Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner, in connecti...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
This is the chilling moment gunman David Cox and an unknown accomplice prepared to shoot Raymond (Yankee) Rawlins dead.
Police released the CCTV pictures after Cox was convicted of the murder on Friday, in the hope of bringing his accomplice to justi...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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Bermuda woke today to the welcome sound of rain, following an exceptionally dry start to the summer.
With the Island’s average precipitation down by nearly half so far this year, the wet days promised by an incoming low pressure system and cold front...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Two American tourists were released from police custody without charge over the weekend after accidentally bringing 40 rounds of 9mm gun ammunition into the Island.
A 26-year-old man and his 29-year-old female companion were searched by cruise ship ...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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Other
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A 35-year-old Southampton man caught with crack cocaine has been fined in Magistrates’ Court.
Tio Smith, of Scenic Heights Road, was searched by police on the night of February 26, after officers on patrol at the Southampton Rangers Club noticed him ...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Acting Governor David Arkley has rejected the idea that the four Uighurs who arrived in Bermuda two years ago are on the Island to stay.
He told The Royal Gazette talks between Britain and the US about the future of the former Guantánamo Bay prisoner...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
John Evans, the husband of former Progressive Labour Party leader Dame Lois Browne-Evans, died late on Thursday evening.
Premier Paula Cox led tributes in the House of Assembly on Friday, where Mr Evans was described as the silent rock on which one o...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
One Bermuda Alliance Senator Craig Cannonier called on Bermudians to “raise our game” or risk losing overseas customers.
Mr Cannonier’s remarks followed a visitor’s complaint that surly bus drivers had affected the quality of her stay in Bermuda.
New...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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An electrician was banned from the road after he was caught driving with four times the legal blood-alcohol limit.
David Dey, 40, from Hamilton Parish, was arrested at around 3.30am on May 7 by officers on mobile patrol.
Crown counsel Tawana Tannock ...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes