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A television network focusing on modern Africa and its people has been launched in Bermuda by CableVision.
The Africa Channel features programmes on news, travel, lifestyle and music, as well as films, talks shows and soap operas.
The Africa Channel ...
DATE: Sep 14, 2009
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Volunteers at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital's (KEMH) Blood Donor Centre are to be replaced by paid nursing and technical staff.
The change is in keeping with new accreditation requirements.
Red Cross volunteers will be kept on call for emergencie...
DATE: Sep 14, 2009
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Dakahri Bailey walked up to the doors of Purvis Primary for the first time this morning as a P1 student.
With bright eyes and high expectations, four-year-old Dakahri started formal education as one of almost 5,000 students in the public school syste...
DATE: Sep 14, 2009
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She's a Bermudian in the UK, helping to raise money to rescue lions in Romania some of which have never even trodden on grass.
Three years ago, 35-year-old Jessica Riederer left the Island to work with native animals in Australia. Then last November ...
DATE: Sep 12, 2009
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A man accused of a guns-and-drugs plot told a jury that he participated with two co-defendants in moving a courier box at the centre of the allegations but claimed he was unaware of any criminal scheme.
The package contained a toolbox, in which was s...
DATE: Sep 12, 2009
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Missing body parts victim Norman Palmer could have done something to save himself in the days before his death, a Supreme Court judge ruled yesterday.
Puisne Judge Geoffrey Bell rejected an application by the 57-year-old's family to quash a coroner's...
DATE: Sep 12, 2009
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Sam Strangeways
The mother of a murdered 20-year-old yesterday said that she doubted a gun amnesty would make any real impact.
Others in the community labelled the idea "laughable," and called for harsher penalties and tougher policing.
Meanwhile more gunshots were ...
DATE: Sep 12, 2009
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Some in Government are calling for a gun amnesty after the shooting of Richard Gaglio in his home last week, but the public say that the move will have little real impact.
Neville Latham said that the amnesty will do nothing to improve the Island's l...
DATE: Sep 12, 2009
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A man has been jailed for two years for importing cannabis valued at more than $10,000 into Bermuda.
Earlier this week Jamal Manders, 38, admitted importing 103.2 grams of the drug when he appeared in Magistrates' Court. A sniffer dog alerted Police ...
DATE: Sep 12, 2009
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An American tourist was fined $2,000 in Magistrates' Court yesterday after admitting to importing marijuana.
Robert Garafolo, 33, arrived on a commercial flight from Boston, Massachusetts, on Monday around 11.45 a.m. He cleared immigration and was i...
DATE: Sep 12, 2009
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