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For Dana Simmons, walking in her father’s military footsteps more than 70 years later proved a deeply moving experience.
Lieutenant Donald Wight Giddings was stationed in Bermuda between 1943 and 1944 to train soldiers bound for the Second World War ...
DATE: Mar 09, 2016
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The Corporation of Hamilton, left liable for a “misappropriated” $18 million loan for a hotel on Par-la-Ville car park, has come a crucial step closer to refinancing its bad debt.
Charles Gosling, Hamilton’s mayor, said his administration had been sa...
DATE: Mar 09, 2016
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Raymond Augustus, a well-liked funeral director and an iconic figure of the Friswells Hill neighbourhood, will be laid to rest this Saturday after his death last week at the age of 57.
His brother, David Augustus Sr, who worked alongside him at the f...
DATE: Mar 09, 2016
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The finale of Downton Abbey will be shown on Sunday and Monday after dismayed fans were deprived of the show due to technical issues last weekend.
As reported in The Royal Gazette today, viewers missed the farewell episode of the highly popular Bri...
DATE: Mar 09, 2016
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Staff at three local community centres have had their contracts renewed.
The founder and chairwoman of the Coalition for the Protection of Children, Sheelagh Cooper, raised concerns in October after the Bermuda Government cut back its funding for the...
DATE: Mar 09, 2016
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The Immigration Reform Action Group (IRAG) has expressed its disappointment after a Bill, brought about by Progressive Labour Party MP Walton Brown to form a joint select committee to examine immigration reform, was rejected in the House of Assembl...
DATE: Mar 09, 2016
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A presentation and panel discussion about immigration on the island will be held on Friday by Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda.
The event titled “Immigration in Bermuda — Its History, Its Legacy” will feature panellists Cordell Riley, Lynne Winf...
DATE: Mar 09, 2016
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Government worker Colina Outerbridge is preparing for a new life as a business owner after completing the Ice House entrepreneurship programme.
She harboured ambitions in her youth to become an accountant and run her own business, although she gradu...
DATE: Mar 08, 2016
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Passengers have raised questions after a ferry crashed into a dock on Friday afternoon.
According to several travellers, the 5.20pm Rockaway ferry struck the dock at Cavello Bay hard enough to cause some minor injuries.
Deborah Smith-Joell said she h...
DATE: Mar 08, 2016
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This afternoon, as part of Bermuda Women’s Day, Laurie-Ann Stovell will share her remarkable story in public for the first time.
The 33-year-old has suffered a series of tragedies — losing her mother to cancer, two of her young sons to a genetic dis...
DATE: Mar 08, 2016
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