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This year’s National Heroes will be honoured at a ceremony on Sunday at the Show Ring of the Botanical Gardens.
The ceremony will honour the achievements of Dr Edgar Fitzgerald Gordon, Sir Henry James Tucker and Dr Roosevelt Brown.
Entertainment wil...
DATE: Jun 14, 2011
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Entertainer Tony Brannon has been axed from the Tourism Board, it emerged today.
He received a letter from Tourism Minister Patrice Minors which said: “Your passion for the Bermuda Tourism product has not gone unnoticed, however after much reflection...
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Future seniors face abject poverty unless Santa Claus bails them out because there’s so little in Bermuda’s pensions pot, according to economist Robert Stewart.
Mr Stewart, a fierce critic of Government’s handling of pensions, says new figures reveal...
DATE: Jun 14, 2011
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A lone sailor determined to cross the Atlantic in a solar-powered boat is now on his way to Bermuda from the US.
Greg Frucci, a 50-year-old filmmaker, was yesterday about halfway to the Island from North Carolina. He set sail on Thursday from the por...
DATE: Jun 14, 2011
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A police car and a motorcycle collided on South Road in Devonshire yesterday morning.
No one was injured, according to a police spokesman, but both vehicles were damaged: the bike extensively so and the car moderately.
The crash happened just after 1...
DATE: Jun 14, 2011
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An anti-conscription campaigner has received top marks from his college professor for a paper calling for an end to Bermuda’s draft.
Jamel Hartman Hardtman wrote the 2,200-word ethics essay, entitled ‘Violating Human Rights for National Interest’, as...
DATE: Jun 14, 2011
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Union boss Glenn Simmons yesterday denied claims bus drivers have issued a 21-day strike notice.
Bus Operators and Allied Workers president Mr Simmons said Bermuda Industrial Union had written a letter listing concerns to the Ministry of Transport fo...
DATE: Jun 14, 2011
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Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva has been awarded the Colonial Police Medal (CPM) for Meritorious Service in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Mr DeSilva, a Bermudian, joined the Bermuda Police Service as a Police Cadet in 1985 and worked his wa...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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A local teacher known for being ‘small in stature but a giant in the classroom’ will be recognised this weekend with an Excellence in Teaching Award.
Wendie Warren, an elementary teacher at The Bermuda Institute has been lauded for ushering in a “hi...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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Premier Paula Cox, Deputy Premier Derrick Burgess and Government Senate leader Kim Wilson are today leading a Ministerial delegation to Washington, DC.
Government says meetings have been set up with high level officials in President Barack Obama’s ad...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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