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Former government minister Jeff Baron has hit the road on a Harley Davidson in the US to raise cash for charity.
Mr Baron’s epic motorbike trip through Texas, Arizona and on to the California coast will cover more than 1,350 miles to support children...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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A premature baby girl born in Bermuda on Christmas Day is expected to be flown off the island this morning for emergency medical treatment abroad.
Kee-Ijah Bailey and her mother, Elisha Joell, will be taken to the Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto by air...
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The battle against invasive lionfish is set to heat up again next month in the fourth annual Winter Lionfish Derby.
Organiser Corey Eddy, who published a PhD on lionfish in Bermuda, said he had high hopes for the monthlong event.
Mr Eddy said: “I sta...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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Census results for 2016 are to be examined by Cabinet in the new year.
The census, which gathered a range of statistics on the island’s population, was completed between May 2016 and last March.
Government said the survey had a 95 per cent response r...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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A fight in which a woman threw gasoline over another woman and tried to set her ablaze has led Southampton Rangers Club to organise an anti-violence forum.
Jason Wade, president of the club, said the Christmas Eve attack was “a very unfortunate incid...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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American country music star and foster care campaigner Jimmy Wayne called yesterday for more Bermuda families to look after children in need of a home.
Mr Wayne, who spent eight years in the US care system, said that fostering children offered them a...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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Government is to give priority to bus routes servicing schools next week as the Department of Public Transportation continues efforts to meet demand.
Buses have been cancelled on a regular basis in recent months due to problems with an ageing fleet.
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DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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An official book of condolences will be placed at the Cabinet Office next week in tribute to former Speaker of the House, the late Ernest DeCouto
The Bermuda Government also extended condolences to the family and friends of Mr DeCouto, who passed awa...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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Police will be out in force this weekend as the island welcomes 2018.
A police spokesman said officers will be “highly visible”, particularly on New Year’s Eve, in an effort to discourage antisocial behaviour.
“Also over the period the Roads Police U...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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Traffic had to be diverted on North Shore Road west of Black Watch Pass this morning after a car flipped over in a crash.
As of 10.30am, the vehicle remained overturned in the road, with police at the scene.
Details will be added to this article as m...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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