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Adventure-travel programme Raleigh International is gearing up to have its biggest group of local participants ever.
Twenty-two people, aged 16 to 25, completed the first training camp last month and are working towards taking part in overseas proje...
DATE: Mar 08, 2011
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A missing cat caused a huge commotion at LF Wade International Airport on Saturday.
An off-duty firefighter ended up being the hero of the morning.
Sergeant Allan Wilkinson used brute strength to pull “Flash” and his would-be rescuers to safety the c...
DATE: Mar 08, 2011
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The Premier and her Cabinet Ministers will host a second town hall meeting this evening to discuss the National Budget. The event will be held at Pennos Wharf, St George, starting at 7pm.
Premier Paula Cox said the town hall meeting will “afford memb...
DATE: Mar 08, 2011
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PartnerRe Ltd has estimated losses of between $180 million and $240 million from the earthquake that shook New Zealand last month.
The initial estimate of expected losses relates to the magnitude 6.3 earthquake which occurred near Christchurch on Feb...
DATE: Mar 08, 2011
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United Bermuda Party MP John Barritt suggested Government is adding more bureaucracy with the newly named Ministry of Government Estates and Information Services.
Minister Neletha Butterfield is in charge of the Ministry, formerly called Public Infor...
DATE: Mar 07, 2011
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Big Al Harris and Celeste Spencer Robinson were yesterday inducted into the Bermuda Music Hall of Fame.
The pair, renowned calypsonians of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, were saluted at a ceremony at Shine Hayward’s Music Studio, attended by Public Informat...
DATE: Mar 07, 2011
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Bermuda has recently garnered the attention of overseas media because of items sold in one of our supermarkets.
In the last week, both BBC Lincolnshire and the Leicester Mercury have run stories about Lincolnshire sausages and Pukka Pies being availa...
DATE: Mar 07, 2011
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Elated families who won a Government housing lottery in 2005 finally got to celebrate properly at the weekend, when the first completed units at Harbour View Village were officially opened.
Premier Paula Cox and National Security Minister David Burch...
DATE: Mar 07, 2011
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An award-winning teenaged sailor was killed in a road accident on Saturday night.
Vershon Simmons, 18, of Pembroke, died in King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after his motorcycle crashed with a car on Harbour Road, Paget, at 9.30pm.
Described as an i...
DATE: Mar 07, 2011
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Less than 100 years ago, scores of black families were forcibly displaced from their homes in Tucker’s Town, on the grounds that the land was needed for tourism.
Yesterday, hundreds of people visited the same site and were asked to consider whether t...
DATE: Mar 07, 2011
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