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Part of Bermuda’s national park system, St David’s Battery on St David’s Island, in St George’s was built in the first decade of the last century with a pair of six-inch and two 9.2-inch rifled breech loaders which can still be seen at the site. The ...
DATE: Jan 30, 2014
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The Bermuda Public Service Union (BPSU) will host its fifth triennial Delegates Conference at the Bermuda Industrial Union headquarters in March.
The conference has been scheduled for March 11 and 12 with the theme of “Social Dialogue: A Catalyst for...
DATE: Jan 30, 2014
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Prisons Commissioner Eddie Lamb has expressed his family’s “sincere regret” after their pit bull escaped from its kennel and killed a neighbour’s Yorkshire terrier in St David’s.
Lieutenant Colonel Lamb told The Royal Gazette that the incident had “g...
DATE: Jan 29, 2014
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Renowned Bermuda civil rights trailblazer, educator and artist Georgine Hill died yesterday, just five days shy of her 96th birthday.
Born in 1918 in desegregated Boston, Massachusetts, Mrs Hill and her husband, Bermudian hotelier and businessman Hi...
DATE: Jan 29, 2014
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Legendary US folk singer Pete Seeger — who penned a song inspired by Bermudian Frank Watlington — died this week at the age of 94.
Mr Seeger was best known for folk standards including ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone?’, ‘If I Had a Hammer (The Hamme...
DATE: Jan 29, 2014
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The soon-to-be revamped Hamilton Princess has signed up a new human resources director.
Jeanette Matthew has joined the team at the iconic hotel as it begins the first stages of a major redevelopment.
Len Czarnecki, general manager of the island’s o...
DATE: Jan 29, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell’s announcement that town hall meetings will be held on gaming in Bermuda received a sceptical welcome from activist Jonathan Starling last night.
A “public education campaign” is scheduled on gaming to begin next week...
DATE: Jan 29, 2014
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A St George’s man was charged this morning with stealing a motorcycle in February last year.
Twenty-year-old Christopher Burgess, of Ballast Point Road, admitted riding the motorcycle but said he was only borrowing it and did not know it was stolen a...
DATE: Jan 29, 2014
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A Smith’s parish man is in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit after his car overturned on South Road in Devonshire on Monday morning.
The 24-year-old driver was taken to hospital by ambulance and is listed in stable condition.
No other injuries were ...
DATE: Jan 29, 2014
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Unionised bartenders employed by Fairmont Hamilton Princess have vowed not to pick up the slack created by the job terminations of three young Bermudian bar porters and two in-room dining captains.
A total of ten employees, including five Bermuda Ind...
DATE: Jan 29, 2014
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