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Voters who believe Government should hold a referendum on gaming have one more week to sign a petition calling for a ballot.
A pressure group launched the petition in January after Government dropped a pre-election pledge to let the public decide if ...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
The One Bermuda Alliance will elect two new deputy chairmen at a special general meeting tomorrow.
Running on joint tickets for the positions are Senator Lynne Woolridge and Sylvia Hayward-Harris as one team and MP Susan Jackson and Karen Magnum as t...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Three sub-post offices are to be shut down in a bid to make the service more cost effective.
At a press conference this afternoon, Acting Premier Michael Dunkley said the three branches — at St. David’s, Harrington Sound and Somerset Bridge — will cl...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index finished the week’s trading at 1,447.62, up 2.43.
The share volume for the week was 121,3141, a value of $346.784.99.
The Bank of NT Butterfield saw the heaviest trading, with 107,318 shares moving, but ...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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A Warwick Academy pupil has been named number one after a gruelling test of maths skills.
Anna Francoeur, aged 11, came out on top and scooped the $2000 top prize after 220 schoolchildren took part in the competition, the tenth of its kind.
One of th...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A new women’s rifle drill team set to make its debut at the annual Bermuda Day Parade has got a seal of approval from the wives of Governor George Fergusson and Premier Craig Cannonier.
Margaret Fergusson and Antoinette Cannonier joined forces to ins...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
Heritage Month is set to run through May 31 as a celebration of Bermuda’s historical treasures. The month was launched with a reception at City Hall.
“All events planned this year are uniquely based on the theme and to promote our many heritage sites...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
When you look at Wayne Caines and Dwayne Caines today, it seems hard to believe that a teacher once grimly predicted they would one day find themselves working on the back of a trash truck.
Wayne is chief executive officer at Digicel, Dwayne is Poli...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
A $1.5 million Lloyd’s Register survey of the tugboat Powerful has been labelled “a lot of money” and “a lot of waste.”
Chief engineer Cornell Simmons said the $1.5 million figure is “still up in the air” after he and his crew have spent the past eig...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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The Palm Beach Post is reporting that state-run insurer Citizens’ board chairman has been twice to Bermuda and once to London as approval was given for the purchase of private reinsurance costing up to $300 million in 2014.
Chairman Chris Gardner sho...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
