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Orana the fossa, a popular creature at the Bermuda Aquarium and Zoo (BAMZ), had her enclosure dedicated to a reinsurance company who helped fund her home.
A fossa is a member of the mongoose family hailing from Madagascar, and is a “top predator” acc...
DATE: May 16, 2012
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Students at the Bermuda High School took home both first and second prizes in the first Earth Day Student Video Competition.
The video “Plastic Bag” by BHS’s Lara Hetzel, following a single blue, plastic bag as it is blown into the ocean, took home t...
DATE: May 16, 2012
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU) and Pembroke Hamilton Club (PHC) president Chris Furbert has denied claims the Union has called in the $1.2 million it loaned to the iconic sports club.
In 2001 PHC borrowed $1,202,778 from the BIU to cover costs for th...
DATE: May 16, 2012
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Colin Thompson
Developers behind the proposed St Regis Hotel have moved a step closer to breaking ground at the Hamilton site.
An agreement has been signed with “the international financial group responsible for advancing the monies needed for construction of the n...
DATE: May 15, 2012
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An award presentation for a returning soldier turned into a different type of celebration as Pte Jonathan Gibbons proposed to his long-time girlfriend.
With a tear in her eye, Jessica Rains accepted the proposal, sparking a round of applause from Pte...
DATE: May 15, 2012
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A 67-year-old woman hit by a motorcycle as she walked along a pedestrian crossing is hoping justice will be served.
The senior citizen’s leg was broken in two places and two of her ribs were fractured on January 27.
She spent four weeks recuperating ...
DATE: May 15, 2012
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Safe traffic zones are being set up at ten more schools as part of a Highways Section campaign to cut down accidents.
Pedestrian crossings near schools will be accompanied by advisory street signs, road markings, anti-skid road surfacing and flashing...
DATE: May 15, 2012
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Hot on the heels of a high-profile child sexual exploitation case, the Island’s first charity devoted to the issue launched its programme for certification in spotting, preventing and dealing with child sex abuse.
“For us, this case is a tragedy,” sa...
DATE: May 15, 2012
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Jonathan Bell
Union leaders hailed their solidarity yesterday as Bermuda Industrial Union announced it has joined Bermuda Trade Union Congress.
BTUC president Shine Hayward and BIU president Chris Furbert said unions would now have more strength as they will be ab...
DATE: May 15, 2012
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A former civil servant and his wife have tonight been found guilty of pocketing almost $543,000 of taxpayers' money, following a three-month trial.
Kyril Burrows, 48, and Delcina Bean-Burrows, 49, engaged in what a prosecutor described as "a systema...
DATE: May 14, 2012
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