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Industrial action launched by bus drivers on Thursday is likely to be resolved early next week, the transport minister said yesterday.
Zane DeSilva was speaking after bus drivers voted for a work to rule after a midweek meeting at the Bermuda Industr...
DATE: Jun 01, 2019
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The Government could take over land to grant public access to a beach cut off by private property, the public works minister said yesterday.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said the Government would step in over a long-running controversy at Gibbet Is...
DATE: Jun 01, 2019
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Aquarium staff in Bermuda and the United States are celebrating the successful release into the wild of Lou-Seal, the first grey seal found stranded on the island.
After six weeks of care at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut, the healthy female was ...
DATE: May 31, 2019
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A motion to raise the retirement age goes up for debate today in the House of Assembly.
Legislators heard on May 10 about plans to increase the retirement and pensionable age at the same time from 65 to 70 over a ten-year period, with the retirement ...
DATE: May 31, 2019
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Poetry and song return to the stage tonight at the Ruth Seaton James Centre for the Performing Arts, when student artists present the neo soul café Loud Souls 2.
Patricia Nesbitt, a drama teacher at CedarBridge Academy, said that a production a year...
DATE: May 31, 2019
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A public forum tonight with Alex Scott, the former premier, will explore the Pitt Commission that investigated Bermuda’s inequalities in the wake of riots that gripped the island in 1977.
Mr Scott was one of the members of the Royal Commission, estab...
DATE: May 30, 2019
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A prison inmate is to be charged with assault after an attack on an officer at Westgate.
According to a Ministry of National Security spokesman, the officer was “executing his duties” when he was assaulted on Monday.
The prison’s duress system was ac...
DATE: May 30, 2019
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A shark paid a surprise visit to the waters off Pompano Beach on Monday.
However, marine expert Choy Aming said startled visitors at the West End beach had experienced a lucky encounter and were in no danger.
He said: “It’s such a rare event. It’s pu...
DATE: May 29, 2019
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A fast track for low-risk passengers headed to the United States has been added to the US Customs and Border Protection department at LF Wade International Airport.
Constance Dierman, the US Consul General, said it would prove “convenient and benefic...
DATE: May 29, 2019
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A Bermudian in Britain who turned his life around after years of crime has told the story behind his change of heart.
Tyevon Bean, 29, told the Hull Daily Mail of his arrests and prison time in Bermuda and England.
He admitted a charge of affray in H...
DATE: May 28, 2019
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