The Base lands may have too poor soil to create a world-class golf course, it was revealed yesterday.
And the massive cost of importing enough good quality soil could bunker the ambitious plan altogether.
The grim prediction came from an Island plant...
DATE: Nov 29, 1995 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
After a blazing start to the new US indoor season Bermuda's third overseas soccer professional -- Shawn Goater and Kyle Lightbourne are the others -- David Bascome has been shelved by injury.
Bascome, who plays for the Harrisburg Heat of the National...
DATE: Nov 25, 1995 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Patrick Bean
New Zealand 50 Barbarians 10 The New Zealand All Blacks captured their sixth World Rugby Classic title in superb style with a 40-point trouncing of Barbarians at National Sports Club on Saturday.
Three tries in five minutes on either side of the hal...
DATE: Nov 20, 1995 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Dexter Smith, Head of Sport
Invitation matchplay tournament following yesterday's championship flight quarter-finals.
Locals Robert Vallis and Blake Marshall will square off in one of today's semi-finals while the other will be contested by defending champion Doug Clark of Nort...
the Island's top triathletes descend on the popular resort of Cancun in Mexico.
They will join more than 2,000 others in search of glory at the 1995 ITU Triathlon World Championship, with teams from far away places such as Australia, Hong Kong and Ne...
DATE: Nov 07, 1995 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Patrick Bean
ago when they carded a final round of 72 on Sunday to win the Bermuda Four Ball Amateur Golf Championship by one stroke.
Connors, who plays out of the Don Shulas Hotel and Golf Club in Florida and his regular partner Rourke, a member of the Framingha...
Association (BBA) stage their annual Hill Climb Championship at the Southampton Princess, with reigning champion Elliot Hubbard off the Island.
Hubbard, who has won the event the past three years is presently attending a picture framing course in New...
international dog shows which begins today.
The shows, held at the Botanical Gardens, will feature more than 100 canines from the US, Canada, Alaska, and Bermuda, despite new restrictions on dogs entering Bermuda, organisers said.
New regulations dic...
Bermuda's hosting of the Commonwealth General Assembly next week will provide the Island with an ideal promotional vehicle -- and not just in terms of sport.
Austin Woods, president of the Bermuda Olympic Association and one of roughly 200 delegates ...
DATE: Oct 26, 1995 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Patrick Bean
Under-13 and Over-15 divisions.
Captain Stephen Fahy smashed records in the Over-15 50 metres freestyle and 50 metres butterfly. The relay team broke their own previous record by over two seconds.
Fahy then teamed up with Stephen Troake, Scott Leitch...
