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Former Premier Alex Scott cheered Government’s announcement of another step toward delivering Public Access to Information in Bermuda.
Nearly ten years on from his initiation of PATI under the Progressive Labour Party, Mr Scott said he was “encourage...
DATE: Mar 08, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
Reggae legend Beres Hammond will kick off a concert tour of North America in Bermuda later this year, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The prolific Jamaican singer/songwriter is scheduled to perform here on July 31 with a full entourage that includes ba...
DATE: Mar 08, 2013
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Colin Thompson
PRIDE hopes to expand its presence in schools after 3.4 percent of students confessed to having an alcoholic drink in the past 30 days.
The anti-drug charity labelled that statistic, and another that revealed nearly four percent of pupils had used in...
DATE: Mar 08, 2013
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Organisers of Bermuda’s Island Challenge announced record entries for the new obstacle adventure, the first of three events in the Bermuda Triple Challenge Series 2013.
At the close of entries yesterday, a total of 90 teams representing 360 participa...
DATE: Mar 08, 2013
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An Olympic quiz crossing local sports, sports news and last year’s London Games is coming to put Bermuda to the test.
Hint: Some of the answers are to be found in coming sports pages of The Royal Gazette.
Following the success of last year’s Olympic...
DATE: Mar 08, 2013
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Tributes have flooded in for promoter and businessman Eddy DeMello, who died yesterday morning after a long illness at the age of 75.
Mr DeMello owned the popular Music Box store on Reid Street and organised many music concerts and boxing tournament...
DATE: Mar 07, 2013
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Gareth Finighan
MPs last night passed a resolution to give Cabinet Ministers a ten percent pay cut, effective April 1.
“It’s more symbolic than substantive,” conceded Premier Craig Cannonier, noting that the overall saving was relatively small.
“But in our present e...
DATE: Mar 07, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
The amendment to the 1995 act would see the rate raised from four percent of gross earned revenue, up to six percent.
Finance Minister Bob Richards assured the House that the Bill “will not hurt Bermuda’s competitiveness”.
DATE: Mar 07, 2013
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Members of Parliament reacted with shock and sadness to news of the death of Eddie DeMello yesterday.
Public Works Minister Trevor Moniz made the announcement to fellow Parliamentarians in the House of Assembly at the start of the morning session.
“H...
DATE: Mar 07, 2013
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Gareth Finighan
More than 2,000 mid-Atlantic commercial airline flights were cancelled yesterday - including the American Airline flight to Bermuda from New York - due to bad weather.
The flight, which was due to arrive at 8.55pm last night, and the return flight to...
DATE: Mar 07, 2013
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