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An eyesore at the West End has been transformed into a centre for a classic Bermudian pursuit that has returned as a sport: pilot gigging.
This Saturday, the Bermuda Pilot Gig Club will hold a regatta for spectators out of its new premises on Boaz Is...
DATE: Apr 09, 2018
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Family and friends paid their final respects to American teenager Mark Dombroski on Saturday.
A funeral service for the 19-year-old was held at Archmere Academy, his former school in Delaware, nearly three weeks after his death in Bermuda.
Mr Dombros...
DATE: Apr 09, 2018
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Football clubs are fostering violence, according to the vice-president of the Bermuda Football Coaches Association.
Maceo Dill blamed this on an “abusive environment” that had been created at the island’s clubs over the past three decades.
He said th...
DATE: Apr 09, 2018
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A child sex abuse prevention charity is to fight a decision to release a high-risk paedophile from jail.
Saving Children and Revealing Secrets said Jonathan Cumberbatch should have “at the very least” been released with conditions, and the charity ha...
DATE: Apr 09, 2018
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A trio of Somersfield students are using a school project to help alleviate the problem of ocean plastic in Bermuda.
Thibaut Stefani, Liam Greenlaw and Kieran Kimberley are working to raise funds to buy a Seabin.
Seabins are floating devices that t...
DATE: Apr 09, 2018
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Two new members of the Court of Appeal were announced today.
Anthony Smellie, Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands, will join the court in June.
Elizabeth Gloster, vice-president of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, will start in January nex...
DATE: Apr 09, 2018
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Two teenagers have been arrested after three scooters were stolen from the Transport Control Department.
A police spokesman said today: “A 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy were arrested in connection with this matter and later released on police...
DATE: Apr 09, 2018
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Premier visited two residents celebrating their 100th birthday today.
David Burt called on Deolinda Pacheco and he visited Frederick Arthur Butterfield with Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education and Workforce Development.
Mr Burt said: “It wa...
DATE: Apr 08, 2018
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Forecasters are predicting an above average hurricane season this year.
Meteorologists at Colorado State University say seven storms are expected to develop into hurricanes, said Reuters,
There is a 52 per cent probability that a major hurricane wil...
DATE: Apr 08, 2018
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A man was taken seriously ill on a flight from Boston to Bermuda today.
The passenger, who was suffering from a heart condition, was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital by ambulance after the plane landed at 1.20pm.
Police said he was receivin...
DATE: Apr 08, 2018
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