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About 2,500 people walked, ran, biked, swam, rode horses and rowed their way around Bermuda in this year’s Catlin End-to-End event.
In fancy dress, or sweaty shirts and sneakers, participants in the premier charity fundraiser thronged the roads on Sa...
DATE: May 09, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Heartbroken father Giovanni Burrows has had to return to Bermuda alone after finally being reunited with the son he’d spent nine years searching for.
The dedicated father’s hopes of bringing his boy home were cruelly dashed just hours after coming f...
DATE: May 09, 2011
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A 73-year-old tourist died after she fell from a golf cart at Rosewood Tucker's Point Club.
Jean Stanley, of Virginia, was pronounced dead at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital yesterday.
A police statement said: "It appears that Jean Stanley, of Virg...
DATE: May 09, 2011
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A 21-year-old man who held up a shop at gunpoint after a loan shark threatened to kill him and his family was jailed for eight years yesterday.
Curtis Mallory, of Warwick, carried out the armed robbery at Fresh ‘N’ New, on Devil’s Hole Hill, Smith’s,...
DATE: May 08, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Long-term care has not been listed as an essential part of basic healthcare for Bermuda, according to a senior’s charity.
Claudette Fleming, the executive director of Age Concern, said there was no “definitive language” within the National Health Pla...
DATE: May 08, 2011
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Health
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Stepping out onto the track at the Carifta Games in Jamaica has left young sprinter Taahira Butterfield keen to keep racing.
“It was hot out there, hotter than I’m used to, and the track felt hard,” the 14-year-old CedarBridge student recalled of the...
DATE: May 08, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Friends and family last night gathered at Midland Heights field in Hamilton Parish for a candlelit vigil in memory of George Lynch, shot last year on May 5.
Organised by the group Colford’s Family Against Violence which was set up after the February ...
DATE: May 08, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Locking up convicted gangsters in tough overseas jails will help to break up Bermuda’s gangs, according to National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief.
The former assistant police commissioner believes “isolating” criminals is the only way to stop th...
DATE: May 08, 2011
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Crime
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St George’s businesses reported a much-needed boost with the arrival of visitors from the MS Veendam.
The vessel anchored offshore on Wednesday, heralding the start of the cruise ship season for the East End.
St George Mayor Kenneth Bascome said: “Th...
DATE: May 08, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Catlin End-to-End got off to a flying start at 8am in St George's, with ideal conditions and walkers showing high spirits.
In their sweaty shirts and sneakers, with just a few pausing to check their phones, participants thronged the roads.
The f...
DATE: May 08, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
