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The editorial in The Royal Gazette of November 27th on the monumental incompetence of the Department of Education was spot on and was long overdue. Whilst Government incompetence is legendary (think of the financial fiasco at Port Royal Golf Course) ...
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Patrons of the Bermuda Youth Library can swim with the sharks without ever getting wet.
Artist Manuel Palacio has just completed a mural for the Youth Library on Church Street depicting underwater scenes.
The library recently decided to add a mural a...
DATE: Dec 11, 2014
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
In the fall of 1984, America’s Cup yacht Courageous joined the long list of boats that have had encounters with Bermuda’s infamous reefs.
While heading out to the Great Sound, the American 12-metre yacht ran aground in Hamilton Harbour on a shoal tha...
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The KPMG Investment Challenge is under way — and CedarBridge Academy team Checkerboards are making the early running.
Checkerboards’ virtual stock portfolio achieved the strongest growth of all 20 teams, putting them at the top of the rankings on the...
DATE: Dec 11, 2014
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The joy of dancing in the rain was the inspiration for BNG Student Art Competition winner, Michelle Araujo.
The theme of this year’s annual competition was Water is Me.
Michelle, 15, winner of the secondary school category, painted feet splashing in...
DATE: Dec 11, 2014
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Bermuda’s principals for both the public and private senior and middle schools, through Imagine Bermuda, have issued a statement praising a young Pakistani student who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.
They said: “We join the World in appl...
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Diana Martin has crewed charter yachts around the world so it’s no wonder that she was drawn to the Bermuda Sloop Foundation. Her appointment as CEO is one of several changes for the charity, which this year made M2 students the focus of its learning...
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A road crossing close to where political cartoonist Peter Woolcock was fatally injured last week is to be moved this weekend.
The crosswalk, outside the office of The Royal Gazette on Par-la-Ville Road in Hamilton, will be shifted south, moving it fa...
DATE: Dec 11, 2014
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Former taxi driver Ashton Vincent Swan, who recently passed away, has been remembered as a caring and kind-hearted gentleman.
He will be sorely missed by family, friends and colleagues as well as a young lady he drove to WindReach, a community facili...
DATE: Dec 11, 2014
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The US Treasury estimated that it will cost foreign banks and financial institutions $8 billion to comply with Fatca. This amount does not take into account the amount of time and cost that US citizens will need to take to comply with the demands of ...
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