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BERMUDA'S medal-scooping gymnasts have an action-packed year ahead but winning the Island Games is the number one priority says head coach Tina Williams.
Last time around gymnastics was not included in the main games and so the Bermuda Gymnastics Ass...
DATE: Jan 16, 2009
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"We didn't go into the war to put down slavery but to put the flag back" Lincoln, Reply to the church committee September 13, 1862:
"In a certain sense the liberation of slaves is the destruction of property property acquired by descent or by purcha...
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Fort Catherine. An old work commanding the turning point of the Narrows Channel where the navigation is most intricate and difficult. A project for mounting six guns on Moncrieff carriages has been approved by the Defence Committee. Owing, however,...
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January 12, 2009
HERE are a few thoughts in response to Sceptic's letter regarding Michael Winfield (Mid-Ocean News, January 9).
From the first sentence, I was puzzled as to what "Sceptic" thinks a campaign manager does. Words like "hatchet man" sure...
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Unwrinkled and disporting her characteristic million-dollar smile, former Somerset resident Doris Cholmondeley Webster took in her easy-going stride all the fuss made over her having reached her 100th birthday on New Year's Day.
Doris is accustomed t...
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RUNNING legend Kathrine Switzer will this weekend wear the same iconic race number she wore when she broke down the barrier for women's marathon running in Boston in 1967, writes Scott Neil.
As she lines up for her second year in the Bermuda Triangle...
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Bermuda's Under-23 national team have emerged as the top priority in Bermuda Football Association's (BFA) road map, president Richard Calderon revealed yesterday.
By 2014 Calderon envisages Bermuda having a realistic chance of qualifying for the Olym...
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Stephen Wright
Premier Ewart Brown has welcomed news that bankrupt Zoom Airlines may return to the skies.
Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper reported earlier this week that new owner James Hultquist-Morrissey had pledged to restore low-cost transatlantic service in...
DATE: Jan 16, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc., the insurer bailed out by the US, is giving executives and employees at least $619 million in retention pay, $150 million more than previously disclosed.
AIG is spending the money to prevent a...
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WHILE the lucky few travel to Washingon, DC for Barack Obama's presidential inauguration next week, people in Bermuda can still be part of the celebrations and even take home a one-of-a-kind painting (see picture below) of the 44th President of the U...
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