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A father and son sailing towards the Island were rescued by the Coast Guard this weekend in “near hurricane” conditions.
US media has reported that Australian father and son Reg McGlashan and Jason McGlashan were on board the 43ft sailboat Sedona whe...
DATE: Feb 17, 2015
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Seventeen Bermuda College students today received a financial boost to help fund their studies.
The awards were sponsored by 15 community benefactors, who recently donated $20,000 to the college, and were presented to the students during the college...
DATE: Feb 17, 2015
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The founder of the Bermuda Boys’ Brigade has been remembered as a man who epitomised the group’s motto “sure and steadfast”.
Captain Cecil Downs passed away this month in Bermuda at the age of 99.
Capt Downs first joined the Boys’ Brigade in Dublin w...
DATE: Feb 17, 2015
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At least 3,475 Belco customers experienced power outages due to yesterday’s adverse weather while flights were cancelled throughout the day.
The Bermuda Weather Service had issued a thunderstorm advisory for mid to late afternoon.
Cancelled flights ...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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A series of events featuring local and international presenters have been organised in commemoration of the United Nations International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
The African Diaspora Heritage Tr...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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A nine-year-old boy has been commended for his quick-thinking after he rushed to the aid of a youngster who was suffering an asthma attack.
Donovan Dyer-Trott was one of nearly 150 students taking part in the interschool cross country race at the Nat...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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Government spent more than $200,000 on furnishings for the Public Works headquarters and the Government Administration Building.
According to a notice gazetted last month, the Ministry of Public Works spent $213,602.26 on office furnishings. The cont...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Public Service Union has voted to make the president’s position a full-time, paid post.
During an emergency general meeting held last Friday, members voted in favour of the changes previously approved by the union’s General Council. Of th...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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Action group Take Back Our Park has started an online petition to let people have their say over a maintenance yard being built in the middle of the Botanical Gardens.
Take Back Our Park wants to see work on the yard, which includes two new two-store...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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A man awaiting trial for burglary was remanded on Monday after the court heard he breached his bail conditions.
Kevin Butterfield, 37, from St George’s, had been released on bail by the Supreme Court last year in advance of a Magistrates’s Court tria...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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