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The island’s gambling regulator splashed out almost $600,000 on legal services over the past two years, it was revealed yesterday.
The figure was reported as the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission published details in the Official Gazette of all the co...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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Sam Strangeways
Customs officers handed out snacks and sodas to the public yesterday as part of an attempt to boost the profile of the department’s work.
Sharmette Pond, the Assistant Collector of Customs, said that officers had received a “great response”.
Ms Po...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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A Bermudian film-maker and a team of friends are training for a gruelling one-day ocean-to-ocean cycle across the Isthmus of Panama next month to help the fight against modern slavery.
Kim Carter said: “It’s like riding two dozen Billy Goat Hills, on...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda is not a place of brass-plate businesses, a visiting international diplomat said.
David Gill, the German Consul General in New York, added: “Bermuda is real business.”
He said: “There’s business going on here. It’s not like one of these ot...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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A trailblazing Bermudian engineer for the Xerox Corporation, who pushed for the hiring of other black professionals, has died.
Lloyd Bean, an 80-year-old father of four, died on January 8 at home in Brighton, New York.
Mr Bean moved to the United Sta...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
(Photographs by Blaire Simmons)
DATE: Jan 22, 2019
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A Dutch merchant vessel has turned towards Bermuda after a crewman began to suffer respiratory issues.
The MV Rolldock Sea contacted the Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre minutes after 10pm last night to say it was steering towards the island becaus...
DATE: Jan 22, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An anti-violence event for schoolchildren yesterday was a success, organisers said last night.
Desmond Crockwell said that the Bermuda Wears Red event would have been worthwhile “even if only one person responded to the call to support the initiativ...
DATE: Jan 22, 2019
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Primary school children have shared explicit pictures of themselves on mobile phones, a technology expert revealed yesterday.
Sloane Wilson, an acting junior analyst at the Government’s Department of ICT Policy and Innovation, said images were distri...
DATE: Jan 22, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A Bermudian actor and singer has joined the Marvel Universe — and came in for some punishment.
Daniel Frith won a role in Netflix’s The Punisher and will take a beating at the hands of the show’s anti-hero.
But the New York resident said his appearan...
DATE: Jan 22, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
