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The Department of Tourism is teaming up with a US television channel to offer New Yorkers the chance to win a holiday in Bermuda.
To mark the Island's 400th anniversary, the Bermuda Bound Ticket Giveaway will provide round-trip airfare on JetBlue for...
DATE: Apr 20, 2009
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Shadow Transport spokesman Michael Fahy has called for a long hard look at Premier Dr. Ewart Brown's decade as Transport minister as the death toll on the road continues to mount.
He told Sandys Rotary Club on Wednesday night that the 17 road deaths ...
DATE: Apr 20, 2009
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A middle-aged caregiver who last month admitted stealing almost $16,000 from her elderly patient asked to change her pleas to not guilty — on the day she was due to be sentenced.
Gaynette Holder, 47, was facing a prison sentence after pleading guilty...
DATE: Apr 20, 2009
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A man was jailed for 10 days for stealing mints from a grocery store.
Don-Kirk Simmons appeared in Magistrates' Court on Friday to answer to a theft charge.
The court heard from Crown counsel Larissa Burgess that on April 1 Simmons was seen by a staf...
DATE: Apr 20, 2009
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BBC board chairman Fernance Perry yesterday vowed to track down who was responsible for broadcasting a union president's comments "on my television station".
Mr. Perry said he was affronted by Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert's remark...
DATE: Apr 20, 2009
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A new support programme to assist developing parliaments has been established by a group of international politicians meeting in Bermuda.
The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) agreed the move at its meeting last week in Hamilton.
It will p...
DATE: Apr 20, 2009
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An American entrepreneur is proposing to bring a two-wheeled, two-seat electric vehicle to the Island to be rented out to tourists.
Robert Territo, who already operates tours on stand-up Segway Personal Transporters (PTs) around Dockyard and St. Geor...
DATE: Apr 20, 2009
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The boss of Bermuda Broadcasting Corporation is refusing to back down over company layoffs, saying his remaining staff should be valuing their jobs in a time of recession.
While management and the station's employees are locked in industrial deadlock...
DATE: Apr 20, 2009
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A princess and a missionary are calling on the people of Bermuda to help in the reconstruction of a war-torn African nation.
Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia and missionary Florence Roumestan both told The Royal Gazette they believe the pioneering med...
DATE: Apr 18, 2009
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Police have arrested Government's Chief Architect Lawrence Brady in connection with the probe into copies of cheques allegedly forged to frame top politicians.
It's understood Mr. Brady was arrested at his home yesterday morning and taken for questio...
DATE: Apr 18, 2009
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