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The Covid-19 pandemic has forced a delay to celebrations of today’s 400th anniversary of Parliament.
But Dennis Lister, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, and Joan Dillas-Wright, the President of the Senate, have organised a full celebration for t...
DATE: Aug 01, 2020
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When the switch was thrown at 6am on August 2, 1962 to radio station ZFB-1, Egbert Montague Sheppard had endured two years of roadblocks to the creation of the island’s second station.
In 1960, after years abroad, Mr Sheppard, known widely as “Monty”...
DATE: May 04, 2020
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Controversial former Bermuda resident Lana Marks has been confirmed as the American ambassador to South Africa by the US Senate almost a year after President Donald Trump appointed her to the post.
The one-time Bermuda tennis champion was confirmed o...
DATE: Oct 28, 2019
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One of Bermuda’s star musicians who performed in what was dubbed “Bermuda’s answer to the Beatles” has died.
Howard “Howie” Rego, a gifted drummer, was 69.
Rego’s music career took him from being a teen heart-throb to working with Sly and the Family ...
DATE: May 18, 2019
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“For many, in Bermuda, you are one paycheque from being homeless and one hustle away from being rich.”
Gritty truth-telling will be on display tomorrow with the premiere of the first two episodes of Bermudian Hafiz Dill’s web series, Hustlerz Paradis...
DATE: Mar 15, 2019
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The grave of a survivor of the 1609 wreck of the Sea Venture in Bermuda may have been discovered in Virginia, archaeologists have said.
The last resting place of Sir George Yeardley is believed to have been found in what was the main church in Bermud...
DATE: Jul 26, 2018
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A spokesperson from Two Words and a Comma remarks, “Many Bermudians now call Canada their home, where same-gender marriage is recognised. We’d love for them to come home one day to a Bermuda that recognises their love and commitment currently reserve...
DATE: Jun 30, 2014
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A petition for Bermuda residents has been launched to protest the kidnapping of almost 300 schoolgirls in northeastern Nigeria by the terror group Boko Haram.
Amnesty International (Bermuda), the The Bermuda Union of Teachers and Imagine Bermuda have...
DATE: May 19, 2014
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Part of Bermuda’s national park system, St David’s Battery on St David’s Island, in St George’s was built in the first decade of the last century with a pair of six-inch and two 9.2-inch rifled breech loaders which can still be seen at the site. The ...
DATE: Jan 30, 2014
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Government Conservation officers are considering trapping and relocating two Snowy Owls and possibly a third that have been seen in Bermuda over the past week.
Killing the non-native accidental visit predator birds has been ruled out. In 1987, a Snow...
DATE: Dec 02, 2013
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