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Harbour Nights is to end two months earlier this year due to budget cuts but will remain a quality event, says the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce.
The Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the City of Hamilton will continue as lead sponsors for Habour Night...
DATE: Apr 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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The Bermuda Public Services Union will echo calls for Ministers to take a pay cut if that’s what members want, its president said.
Last week, Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert called on Cabinet Ministers to take a “symbolic pay cut” af...
DATE: Apr 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Companies and wealthy individuals have donated $17 million to help pay for the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital redevelopment, it was announced today.
Chairman of the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust, Phil Butterfield, said the goal is to raise $4...
DATE: Apr 11, 2011
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Other
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The community is doing nothing to stop gun violence spiralling out of control as every murder triggers “the same predictable reaction”.
This is the view of community activist Gina Spence who has spoken out about “the need for drastic change” after l...
DATE: Apr 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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Bermuda students will come together in song this summer through an initiative modelled after the hit US television series ‘Glee’.
The Argo Foundation announced today that it would work with teachers in the Island’s public and private schools to creat...
DATE: Apr 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A homeless man was sentenced to two years in prison for stealing phone cards from a gas station.
Delvin Stevens, 42, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court last week to stealing 65 phone cards from the Collector’s Hill gas station on February 7, and es...
DATE: Apr 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Two teenagers were fined in Magistrates’ Court after admitting to charges of drug possession.
Tahva Virgil, 16, was arrested on July 28 last year at the Southampton Cricket Club on suspicion of possessing cannabis.
Crown counsel Susan Mulligan told t...
DATE: Apr 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A wave-monitoring buoy has been placed off the South Shore to gather information about the feasibility of wave power in Bermuda.
If studies show that it is viable, a wave energy product could produce both electricity and fresh water for Bermuda from ...
DATE: Apr 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Twenty-five years ago today an American broke records by sailing solo, non-stop across the world starting and ending his journey in Bermuda.
Dodge Morgan, who became the first American to circumnavigate the world on his own, completed his journey on...
DATE: Apr 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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People could be given thousands of dollars to hand in guns as part of new National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief’s plan to tackle Bermuda’s gang problem.
Mr Perinchief will also put gang legislation back on the Cabinet table this week, despite p...
DATE: Apr 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
