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At least 164 ballots were rejected from last month’s General Election, with Sandys South Central coming top at 14.
At 0.48 per cent of the total count of 34,060, it was down from the 0.56 per cent in the 2012 election, in which 174 ballots were rejec...
DATE: Aug 10, 2017
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Chloe Smith, Tashae Trott, and Phoebe Barboza are the new recipients of the Paget Parish Undergraduate Scholarship and Bursary Award.
Chloe will receive $5,000 each year for the next four years as she begins her studies at Western University, Canada,...
DATE: Aug 10, 2017
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Medical student Meliseanna Gibbons is to realise her childhood dream of becoming a doctor debt-free thanks to a scholarship.
Ms Gibbons spent five years as a child in the African country of Cameroon with her missionary family and always wanted to ret...
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A summer wine festival in Hamilton tomorrow is expected to pull in a hundreds of people for a glass of plonk.
The “Uncorked” event at Hamilton’s Barr’s Bay Park, co-ordinated by Cushi Ming, is designed to bring people together to “meaningfully connec...
DATE: Aug 10, 2017
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The importance of saving money will be the topic of discussion at a Generation Next town hall meeting on Wednesday.
Micah Davis, the general manager of the Bermuda Credit Union, will give a presentation on fiscal responsibility at the event, in the B...
DATE: Aug 10, 2017
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When 16-year-old Hasna Turner first put pen to paper on a book about the Uighurs in Bermuda, it was meant to be a school project.
But after a year of hard work, Uyghurs: Prisoners in Paradise has found its way on to digital store shelves, with the pr...
DATE: Aug 10, 2017
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A lawyer at island firm Sedgwick Chudleigh has been Called to the Bermuda Bar.
Neil Thomson, an associate attorney at the firm, became eligible to practise as a barrister in Bermuda last Thursday after a court ceremony in front of Chief Justice Ian K...
DATE: Aug 09, 2017
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Legendary local actor Earl Cameron, who turned 100 yesterday, is the first to admit that the milestone comes as a surprise.
“I never expected to live this long, I don’t suppose anybody does,” Mr Cameron told The Royal Gazette.
“If you’d told me ten y...
DATE: Aug 09, 2017
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A limit drastically curtailing lobster fishing licences just weeks before the season resumes has taken the community by surprise.
“It’s like a secret edict,” said longstanding fisherman Ted Gauntlett, about restrictions that would bar hundreds from a...
DATE: Aug 09, 2017
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Mental health professionals have called for barriers surrounding mental illness to be broken down.
And they said the culture of silence around mental health problems needed to end so the subject could be properly discussed and dealt with.
“No one tal...
DATE: Aug 09, 2017
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