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A final push is under way for donations of sunglasses to help people plagued by eye conditions in Haiti.
Lucy Willitts launched the drive for shades last year after she experienced, first hand, the plight of residents in the poverty-stricken country....
DATE: Jan 25, 2019
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Completion of roofing on the airport’s new terminal building was marked yesterday with a traditional roof-wetting ceremony.
Aaron Adderley, the president of airport operator Skyport, said the event was a “magnificent milestone”.
Construction on the ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2019
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Employees from Hamilton Princess & Beach Club took part in a health fair yesterday.
A total of 26 local vendors featured in the session, which gave employees the chance to sample wares, services and fitness classes and enjoy a healthy lunch.
Sharai ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2019
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A veteran staff member of the Bermuda Police Service has died.
Donna Roberts died in the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital last Wednesday. She was 61.
Commissioner of Police Stephen Corbishley said he was deeply saddened by the news.
He added Ms Ro...
DATE: Jan 24, 2019
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A whale calf was found dead in the waters off Devonshire Dock yesterday.
Bystanders spotted the juvenile male short-finned pilot whale floating near the dock on North Shore early in the morning
The whale, which was 7.2ft in length, was hauled on shor...
DATE: Jan 24, 2019
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Nineteen prison officers have been promoted.
Keeva-Mae Joell-Benjamin, the Acting Commissioner of Corrections, congratulated the officers for reaching “this significant professional milestone”.
She added the changes, the first for four years, were a...
DATE: Jan 24, 2019
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A young woman who took her own life is to be remembered by former colleagues at a charity event to support people with mental health problems.
Jessica Gibbons was 25 when her 2016 death by suicide shocked colleagues at Red Steakhouse in Hamilton, whi...
DATE: Jan 24, 2019
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A company that lost millions in the failed Par-la-Ville hotel project has urged businesses to avoid the island in a message to the United States Consulate for Bermuda.
A spokesman for Mexico Infrastructure Finance Ltd wrote to Constance Dierman, the ...
DATE: Jan 24, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Today the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sports the Hon. Lovitta Foggo JP MP met with Bermuda’s 2019 Writer-in-Residence and guest author Andrea Stuart.
Ms Stuart is on the island to facilitate a three-week Writer-In-Residence programme w...
DATE: Jan 24, 2019
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The historic Perot Post Office on Hamilton’s Queen Street reopened yesterday after a major refurbishment.
Walton Brown, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, said the renovated post office will now be the home of the Bermuda Philatelic Bureau, which u...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes