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Development plans for the site of Hamilton’s Old Canadian Hotel remain in limbo, according to property owner Thomas Powell.
Mr Powell last month submitted plans for mixed use development of the half-acre site at junction of Reid Street and Court Stre...
DATE: Apr 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The West End Development Corporation (Wedco) has asked Planning for retroactive approval of bus parking built on Pender Road in Dockyard.
The parking for 23 buses was built as part of the Dockyard redevelopment plan. The proposal says the Public Tran...
DATE: Apr 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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A Devonshire man in Magistrates’ Court admitted importing cannabis to the Island, but said the offense was completely accidental.
Taylor Grier, 23, told the court that when packing his bag, he picked up the wrong pair of pants.
According to Crown cou...
DATE: Apr 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda is the eighth most densely populated place in the world according to the Government’s Sustainable Development Director.
Yesterday, Charles Brown told Caribbean Tourism Organisation delegates Bermuda’s average population density per square mi...
DATE: Apr 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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A 19-year-old youth yesterday admitted sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, during an appearance in Magistrates’ Court.
The 19-year-old pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault on the girl between September 1 and November 30 last year.
Cro...
DATE: Apr 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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Feeling undermined by Premier Paula Cox was “the final straw” for Colonel David Burch who is said to have been “slowly running out of steam.”
Progressive Labour Party colleagues said they admired the “healthy relationship” the former Senate Leader an...
DATE: Apr 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Last night Shelly Bay residents were counting the cost of damage after what appeared to be a tornado tore through the area, ripping roofs of homes and toppling walls.
While it is not known how high winds in the area reached, winds across the Island w...
DATE: Apr 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
More than 2,000 tourists visited Dockyard over the weekend.
Cruise ship Queen Victoria docked in the West end historical town on Saturday, bringing with it 1,912 passengers and 970 crew.
Transport Minister Terry Lister visited the Captain of the shi...
DATE: Apr 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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More than a dozen international journalists attended the Caribbean Tourism Organisation’s Sustainable Development Conference this week.
The event was hosted by the Bermuda Department of Tourism at the Fairmont Southampton.
The Royal Gazette asked so...
DATE: Apr 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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Former Bermuda Regiment Music Director Horace Gibbons died on Tuesday, having celebrated his 91st birthday on February 3.
Captain Horace Richard Stanley Gibbons, of Wellington Slip Road, St. George’s, enjoyed a life distinguished by music, starting a...
DATE: Apr 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell