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The Bermuda life of world-famous writer Mark Twain is to be explored this weekend.
One of the world’s top experts on the US author — whose real name was Samuel Clemens and who penned classics like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — is to visit the ...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
An application to redevelop the Pink Beach property in Smith’s has been criticised over plans to limit access to the property’s eastern beach.
Guests of the proposed resort and residents of the neighbouring Hidden Cove property would be able to use a...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Cartel founder Leroy Bean hasn’t ruled out the possibility of a legal challenge to last week’s Supreme Court ruling that effectively stripped the gang mediation group of its lease of White’s Island.
Pastor Bean wouldn’t comment on whether he would ta...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
Government has responded to claims made by a tugboat engineer who labelled a recent $1.5 million Lloyd’s Register survey of the tugboat Powerful “a lot of money” and “a lot of waste.”
Cornell Simmons, Chief Engineer, raised his concerns over the grow...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Three sailors who endured a nightmare ordeal on the open seas after their yacht sank in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean have arrived safely in Bermuda.
British couple Leonard and Lisa Rorke, along with crew member Henri Worthalter, from Belgium, wer...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
Bermuda’s swimmers have been applauded by Sports Minister Wayne Scott after picking up 22 medals at the CARIFTA Games in Aruba.
Minister Scott said that, like many Bermudians, he had anticipated the swimmers racking up a healthy number of medals — bu...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
Voters who believe Government should hold a referendum on gaming have one more week to sign a petition calling for a ballot.
A pressure group launched the petition in January after Government dropped a pre-election pledge to let the public decide if ...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
The One Bermuda Alliance will elect two new deputy chairmen at a special general meeting tomorrow.
Running on joint tickets for the positions are Senator Lynne Woolridge and Sylvia Hayward-Harris as one team and MP Susan Jackson and Karen Magnum as t...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Three sub-post offices are to be shut down in a bid to make the service more cost effective.
At a press conference this afternoon, Acting Premier Michael Dunkley said the three branches — at St. David’s, Harrington Sound and Somerset Bridge — will cl...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
A Warwick Academy pupil has been named number one after a gruelling test of maths skills.
Anna Francoeur, aged 11, came out on top and scooped the $2000 top prize after 220 schoolchildren took part in the competition, the tenth of its kind.
One of th...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
