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Hoteliers have predicted poor occupancy levels this winter, but are hoping special packages will entice tourists and locals to their resorts.
Between January and March 2010 the largest seven hotels on the Island reported 35 percent occupancy, down fr...
DATE: Dec 21, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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With the Christmas season approaching the Grant family is focusing on one thing, raising enough money to ensure 22-year-old Tony gets the intensive medical care he needs to recover from a serious road accident.
The motocross racer was on Government's...
DATE: Dec 21, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Other
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A teenager who was tasered by police after threatening to shoot officers after a drunken night out will face sentencing in Magistrates' Court in February.
Jahdeko Fubler, 18, of Warwick, pleaded guilty to violently resisting arrest and using threate...
DATE: Dec 21, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Court
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A fifth man to admit his role in a violent home invasion was yesterday jailed for two years.
Collin Hendrickson, 19, broke into the Pembroke residence of Jahdean Gibbons last June, along with four others.
Supreme Court heard during previous proceedin...
DATE: Dec 21, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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Andre Curtis has left a string of victims in his wake through his involvement in controversial investment schemes in Bermuda and beyond.
As The Royal Gazette reported last month, he was fined $335,000 and ordered to pay back huge sums of cash for his...
DATE: Dec 21, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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Bermuda's weather hit a record new low this morning with a temperature of 48F, just under 9C — the lowest this year and the lowest ever recorded for December, according to the Bermuda Weather Service.
Weather forecaster Michelle Pitcher said it was r...
DATE: Dec 21, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Premier Paula Cox is said to be weighing up an early summer General Election as the Progressive Labour Party considers cashing in on disarray in the Opposition ranks.
But PLP members were yesterday split over the best time for Ms Cox to send the peop...
DATE: Dec 21, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
The bad weather has disrupted ferry services today, according to the Department of Marine and Ports.
The Department said this afternoon that:
* Blue Route – Service cancelled for the followings trips: Departing Hamilton at 5.30 pm and 6.30 pm
* Green...
DATE: Dec 21, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Other
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A $240,000 study is to be carried out into the impact of modifying Town Cut Channel and Two Rock passage to allow larger ships to berth in Hamilton and St George's.
A spokesman for the Department of Tourism said yesterday that the study will look at ...
DATE: Dec 21, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A $1.5 million Southampton home illegally purchased by expatriates has been handed over to Government.
National Security Minister David Burch announced this morning that the home, Laughing Waters, is now owned by the Bermuda Housing Corporation.
Sena...
DATE: Dec 21, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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