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The cost of groceries continues to rise in Bermuda with some products doubling in price in less than a decade, according to the latest Digest of Statistics.
But farmers and supermarket bosses say the figures are not a fair reflection of the prices pa...
DATE: Jan 14, 2016
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A letter cover featuring a rare Bermuda stamp dating back more than 150 years is set to go on the auction block this month.
The American-styled date stamp, reading “Paid at Ireland Island/Bermuda”, was found on a mourning envelope from Midshipman Joh...
DATE: Jan 14, 2016
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The state lottery in Florida has issued a warning to people in Bermuda buying tickets for the multimillion-dollar Powerball draw from a local bookmaker.
Paradise Games, on Court Street, offers tickets for the Powerball Lottery, telling customers on i...
DATE: Jan 14, 2016
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Sam Strangeways
A section of Kindley Field Park is being set aside as a storage area for a Bailey bridge being constructed for the swing bridge across Ferry Reach.
About 750ft of the park, next to the swing bridge, will be used for this purpose for about six weeks, ...
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A 44-year-old man died after an incident in Sandys yesterday, according to police.
Emergency services responded to a call about a man taken ill in the area of Pleasantville Lane, at 9.35pm.
He was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, where he ...
DATE: Jan 14, 2016
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A former senior Cabinet official and British Army Colonel Donald Ralph Pudney has died at the age of 88 after a battle with cancer.
He died last Tuesday — six weeks after receiving his diagnosis.
Mr Pudney moved to Bermuda in 1971 working across th...
DATE: Jan 13, 2016
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Sarah Lagan
This female Holstein calf was pictured at just one day old at Green Land Dairy farm.
The calf is one of about 120 Holstein and Jersey cows on the farm, owned by Valter Medeiros.
She was born at about 9am on Sunday and will be grown for breeding and...
DATE: Jan 13, 2016
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Sarah Lagan
A funeral service is to be held tomorrow for Andrea Burgess, a mother of three who had found a new life abroad after years of tragedy.
Ms Burgess, who died suddenly from a brain haemorrhage on January 4 at the age of 55, had been visiting Bermuda fro...
DATE: Jan 13, 2016
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Jonathan Bell
A ten-year-old girl has decided to give all her birthday money away to charity for the second year in a row.
Warwick Academy student Rachael Betschart set an example for us all by donating $650 to the Coalition for the Protection of Children’s Breakf...
DATE: Jan 13, 2016
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Animal advocacy group Punish the Deed has renewed its call for a dog amnesty after helping to arrange for the export of two seized dogs from Bermuda.
Both pets, which would have faced euthanasia had they remained on the Island, were flown to a tempor...
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