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Belco workers are continuing to reconnect houses left in the dark by Hurricane Gonzalo and Tropical Storm Fay, after numbers surged during the week with rains causing a number of poles to short out.
As of today, Devonshire was the worst-hit, with mor...
DATE: Oct 25, 2014
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Hamilton’s main post office facility has been tested and cleared for asbestos, according to a Public Works spokesman.
The Royal Gazette understands that some staff at the General Post Office had voiced concerns about possible asbestos in the building...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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“Son of Bermuda” St George Tucker, the law professor who alerted American patriot leaders to a store of gunpowder in Bermuda, has been commemorated at a ceremony in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.
The Bermuda-born American patriot was Professor of L...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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Another day without power — that was the case for thousands of residents yesterday.
Some 1,500 lost their electricity after Tropical Storm Fay swept across the Island, and many more after Hurricane Gonzalo.
However, the arrival of additional CARILEC ...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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Residents burning garden waste after Hurricane Gonzalo are being reminded that certain vegetation can give off toxic fumes if set on fire.
Poisonous plants such as Mexican pepper, oleander, pencil tree and poison ivy should not be burned, advised th...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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An act of kindness was born out of tragedy when a Hamilton restaurant manager decided to pay for a customer’s bill out of her own pocket.
Lindsey Durham, a manager at Bermuda Restaurant Group, was working at Rosa’s Tex Mex restaurant on the Sunday a...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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The race is on for St George as crews work to prepare the Olde Towne for the arrival of the cruise ship Regatta next week.
Hurricane Gonzalo and Tropical Storm Fay caused significant damage to the town and Corporation of St George workers has been bu...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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The cahow colony on Nonsuch Island escaped from Hurricane Gonzalo unscathed and the area is ready for the imminent arrival of our national bird for the next breeding season.
Conservation experts have been checking over the site, part of the Castle H...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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Government should draft a “multiyear deficit reduction strategy” in tandem with the labour movement, Bermuda Public Services Union president Jason Hayward has suggested.
The BPSU remains opposed to privatising, outsourcing and mutualising in the publ...
DATE: Oct 24, 2014
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