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Students across the Island celebrated International Literacy Day yesterday — with one school getting an extra special visitor to mark the occasion.
Football hero Shaun Goater dropped in on an assembly at Clearwater Middle School in St. David's to tal...
DATE: Oct 11, 2007
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Twenty-five number crunchers spent the day on Monday digging up invasive plants in a nature reserve.
Employees of the Bank of Bermuda partnered with the Bermuda National Trust, Bermuda Audubon Society and Department of Conservation Services to remove...
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The electrical wiring industry could pull the plug on a course it sponsors at Bermuda College amid claims that the college has dragged its heels over completion of a vital training lab.
The National Training Board (NTB) — which co-sponsors the course...
DATE: Oct 11, 2007
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With the PGA Grand Slam of Golf just around the corner, the Department of Tourism is hosting a slew of parties for those who can't attend the tournament.
The first of three 'Turn Bermuda On!' events takes place tomorrow evening at Hamilton Princess.
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Students are not interested in working in tourism, despite new hotels coming to the Island and repeated plugs by the Premier.
A study carried out at last year's Bermuda College Career Fair revealed that 53 percent of students aged between 13 and 17 h...
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Investigation into rubbish blaze
A burning palm tree and a pile of debris in the Fentons Drive, Pembroke area, had to be put out by the Bermuda Fire Service yesterday morning.
Around 4.45 a.m., Police officers attended the scene only to find the burn...
DATE: Oct 11, 2007
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An increase in people flying to Bermuda on business or to visit family and friends had little to do the Department of Tourism's $36 million budget, according to the Opposition spokesman for tourism.
And David Dodwell added that new hotels would not c...
DATE: Oct 10, 2007
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Organisers of the PGA Grand Slam of Golf are grappling with the logistics of hosting the event - including how to ferry more than 1,000 guests to and from their hotels.
Bermuda PGA general chairman and Mid Ocean Club vice president, David Ezekiel, sa...
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A mother who was tortured under Saddam Hussein's tyrannical reign in Iraq will tell her story in Bermuda later this month.
Freshta Raper, an Iraqi Kurd, has been invited to the Island by Amnesty International Bermuda to deliver the group's annual Col...
DATE: Oct 10, 2007
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UBP Party candidate Jeff Sousa yesterday accused Alex Scott of being "asleep at the wheel' over the Southlands controversy.
He claimed the former Premier only spoke against the project after public concern hardened into political opposition.
"This wa...
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