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A major fundraiser for charity is to be held today for the 51st year.
The Hamilton Lions Club Gasorama, which has raised more than $1 million over the years for a variety of good causes, will this year benefit charity for the blind Vision Bermuda and...
DATE: Feb 08, 2020
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A blame game has broken out after local construction firms claimed they were unpaid for months of work on the new power plant deemed “essential” for Bermuda’s energy future.
Three Bermudian contractors, who spoke this week with The Royal Gazette unde...
DATE: Feb 07, 2020
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Bermuda’s first coastguard unit was launched yesterday in the West End.
A vacant former police barracks, Watford House at Malabar in Somerset, has been repurposed as the command centre for the unit.
It will consist of 16 members of the Royal Bermuda ...
DATE: Feb 07, 2020
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A proclamation in support of marriage on the grounds of the Cabinet Office was met by 20 demonstrators backing the right to wed for same-sex couples.
Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, joined Allan and Mildred Hunt, the founders of Heart-To-...
DATE: Feb 06, 2020
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A plaque to honour the craftsman who created two massive chandeliers for the foyer of Hamilton’s City Hall was unveiled yesterday.
The late George Trott carved the two wooden chandeliers, which weigh in at 500lb each, in 1959 at his carpentry shop in...
DATE: Feb 06, 2020
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An attempt to claw back $11 million of government cash handed out to construction firms unpaid by the developers of the stalled Caroline Bay resort will be made, the finance minister has vowed.
However, contractors said the compensation had not paid ...
DATE: Feb 05, 2020
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Christmas cheer carried over into January as the Pembroke Rotary Club announced the winners of the 2019 Christmas Essay Competition.
The annual contest has run for the past four years, and is open to both public and private schools at the primary, mi...
DATE: Feb 05, 2020
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A man seen with a knife on his person yesterday in the Washington Mall is being sought by police.
A police spokesman said a group of males entered the mall at 4.15pm, with one walking with a cane and carrying what appeared to be a six-inch knife.
The...
DATE: Jan 31, 2020
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A picture flaw affecting local TV stations is the subject of talks between the Bermuda Broadcasting Company and One Communications.
The Royal Gazette has fielded complaints from viewers over the black border that reduces screen size on channels ZBM-9...
DATE: Jan 31, 2020
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The British exit from the EU tomorrow will be marked with an open house pan-European “table for Europe” meal organised by an Anglican priest.
The UK’s departure from the EU, dubbed Brexit, will happen at 7pm Bermuda time.
Anthony Pettit, the parish p...
DATE: Jan 30, 2020
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