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Public transport in Bermuda gets rave reviews from visitors, but local users and providers are critical of the services. “The ferry is excellent,” said Sheila Wilsker from Florida, who was visiting the Island aboard the Grand Princess, which was call...
DATE: Nov 16, 2012
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The PGA Grand Slam will remain at Port Royal until 2014, Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert announced yesterday.
“This is great news for Bermuda to have the Grand Slam return for the next two years,” Mr Furbert said. “During the last six years of hosting...
DATE: Nov 15, 2012
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Pembroke woman was injured when her auxiliary cycle struck a car at the entrance to Sunset Pass, in Pembroke.
According to a police spokesman, officers and first responders attended a crash on North Shore Road at around 8.30am on Tuesday.
“It appea...
DATE: Nov 15, 2012
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Butterfield Bank has offered more than nine percent of its Bermuda workforce, or 56 employees, voluntary early retirement, citing the economic slowdown and changes in technology.
Butterfield already has reduced staff in Bermuda by 10 percent over the...
DATE: Nov 15, 2012
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Cash-strapped charity the Family Centre are fundraising their way out of a budget shortfall, raising more than $50,000 in little more than a week.
Donor Kirk Kitson said the organisation, “bombarded” with families in need, is dead set on raising $200...
DATE: Nov 15, 2012
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Jonathan Bell
Government was accused of electioneering and political manoeuvring over the apparent reversal of policy on mandatory GPS devices for the taxi industry.
Shadow Transport Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin voiced scepticism over what she termed an “eleve...
DATE: Nov 15, 2012
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Valuable Pop Art portraits of Queen Elizabeth II created by Andy Warhol are to go on view at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess Hotel tonight.
The four artworks, different-coloured variations on the same Silver Jubilee image of the Queen, are on loan fro...
DATE: Nov 14, 2012
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The South African rugby player arrested over an alleged assault on the World Classic pitch said he feels “absolutely shattered” about the serious injury suffered by the American player involved.
However, Robbie Kempson said the incident which left Le...
DATE: Nov 14, 2012
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A Pembroke man was arrested after allegedly flipping a car in Pembroke.
According to a police spokesman, at around 1.40am on Monday officers responded to reports of a single vehicle collision on St John’s Road, near the junction with Moores Lane.
“It...
DATE: Nov 14, 2012
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Events ranging from a ‘lunch and learn’ geared to aiding the public understand their energy bills to an award-winning documentary “Chasing Ice” are in this year’s line-up for Caricom Energy Week in Bermuda.
Minister of Environment, Planning and Infra...
DATE: Nov 14, 2012
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