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Government officials working to combat gun and gang violence have joined forces with a gospel reggae artist to send out a message of peace to the public.
Wayne Caines, the national security minister, and gang violence reduction co-ordinator Leroy Be...
DATE: Jul 31, 2018
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Regulators are expected to weed out crooked operators who try to be part of the island’s fintech industry, the Senate heard yesterday.
James Jardine said he was “comforted” by the Bermuda Monetary Authority’s role in drawing up rules to govern the bu...
DATE: Jul 31, 2018
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Fiona McWhirter
Mustapha Rasheed will never forget February 25, 1969, the day he learnt he would spend the next three years in a US prison.
He was 21 and had been caught smuggling 40lbs of marijuana into the United States from Jamaica.
“I knew, being honest with my...
DATE: Jul 31, 2018
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
A young Bermudian victim of an early British race riot has been highlighted in a blog on the Britain’s black history.
The story of Charles Wooten was retold in the wake of controversy over the status of immigrants from the Caribbean.
Lowdru Robinson...
DATE: Jul 31, 2018
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An MP snapped apparently asleep in the House of Assembly has called for an inquiry into the use of cameras in Parliament.
Christopher Famous, a Progressive Labour Party backbencher, was one of several politicians captured sleeping in the House of As...
DATE: Jul 31, 2018
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A main road is to close for construction works for “an extended period of time”.
The Ministry of Public Works said Blackwatch Pass in Pembroke will be shut from next Monday.
A spokeswoman for the ministry said the road will be closed for several week...
DATE: Jul 31, 2018
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More than 100 seniors attended a pre-Cup Match tea party at Somerset Cricket Club yesterday.
Dorothy Morrissey, 86, said the tea party was “a very nice environment”, adding: “I was born and raised in Somerset, and I’ve travelled all across the world...
DATE: Jul 31, 2018
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A charity set up to care for the graves of seamen celebrated its 100th anniversary with a special service.
The Guild of the Holy Compassion marked its century with a wreath-laying ceremony off St David’s last Friday.
Derek Tully, guild secretary, sai...
DATE: Jul 31, 2018
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A Bermuda Business Development Agency consultant caught using a forged document has had his contract with the agency terminated.
A spokeswoman for the BDA said: “John Narraway is no longer working for the BDA.
“The agency terminated its consultancy ...
DATE: Jul 31, 2018
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Tonight’s British Airways flights to and from Bermuda are delayed.
According to the Skyport website, the BA2233 flight from London Gatwick, due to arrive at 6.25pm, departed late and is now expected to land at 9.06pm.
Return flight BA2232 is expecte...
DATE: Jul 31, 2018
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