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The Catlin End-to-End Walk raised more than $300,000 for a host of local charities.
The achievement was announced last night during an awards ceremony at the Hamilton Princess.
Donations of $35,000 each went to the Adult Education School, Centre Agai...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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The widow of world-famous author and ocean conservationist Peter Benchley will fly to Bermuda tomorrow to comfort the widow of sea legend Teddy Tucker.
Wendy Benchley, who carried on her husband’s work in protecting the seas, said she will fly from t...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A US comic who branded Bermuda “a tax loophole masquerading as a country” has been blasted by the Island’s business sector.
Real Time host Bill Maher launched his attack on the Island on his top-rated show after a report on offshore jurisdictions was...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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Five years after they were secretly smuggled into Bermuda a group of Uighurs are still no closer to being able to leave.
On the anniversary of their arrival from Guantánamo Bay, the four former detainees have no passports, and the governments of the ...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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There will be a slight change to the Island’s trash collection schedules due to the National Heroes Day holiday on Monday.
Trash in the west end will be collected on Wednesday and Thursday, while in the east end trash will be collected as usual on Tu...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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After being left “very disturbed” by a report of alleged racial harassment suffered by a Filipino worker for more than 14 years, Minister of Home Affairs Michael Fahy has assured the Filipino community that his Ministry “is here to provide support”. ...
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More than 200 families and 25 non-profit organisations participated in the third annual Allied World Family Community Day on Sunday despite poor weather conditions.
The event provided games, food and entertainment while at the same time giving to the...
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The legalisation of marijuana leads to “more widespread use and many more health implications”, a new paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine has argued.
The review, penned by scientists from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)...
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The Island’s Filipino community will mark the Philippines’ 116th Independence Day tomorrow with a mass officiated by visiting priest Carlos Macatangga.
Father Macatangga described it as the first Filipino mass to be celebrated on the Island since the...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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Bermuda’s Uighurs deserve the “basic human right” to travel and the public should write to the Premier asking that they be given it, according to Amnesty International.
Suzanne Wilson, executive director of the local branch of the human rights charit...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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