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The Government is seeking a director for its new Department of Economic Development.
David Burt announced the formation of the department in the House of Assembly on January 31, saying it would become operational “in the coming months”.
The post of ...
DATE: Jul 15, 2020
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Duncan Hall
Coral Beach and Tennis Club has chartered a jet to provide airlift to Bermuda for its members resident in the US northeast.
The private members-only club is to begin the weekly charter service on Saturday. It is initially scheduled to run for four we...
DATE: Jul 15, 2020
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Elbow Beach Hotel is to stay shuttered until the end of the year, it was confirmed yesterday.
But Jacky DiMeglio, the hotel’s general manager, declined to comment further.
The waterfront resort in Paget earlier announced a temporary closure until Sep...
DATE: Jul 14, 2020
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Tourism
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Duncan Hall
A mixed-media artist from the Azores has become the first from overseas to be featured in an online gallery devoted to Bermudian art.
Lisa Howie, the owner of the Black Pony gallery, said Leonor Almeida Pereira’s abstract paintings explored “the ocea...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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The healthcare system in the Dominican Republic is ill-equipped to handle the Covid-19 pandemic, a Dominican woman living in Bermuda said yesterday.
Heidi Eridania, originally from Puerto Plata, said healthcare in the country was “terrible, sadly ter...
DATE: Apr 21, 2020
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Duncan Hall
Relatives of cancer patients in the terminal stages of the disease can request an exemption letter from cancer charity Pals so they can say goodbye to loved ones in person.
Dr Sharon Alikhani, the Pals medical director, said: “If patients are in the ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2020
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Health
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Duncan Hall
The Covid-19 pandemic disaster may leave behind a more compassionate society, an Italian-born Catholic priest said yesterday.
Father Attilio Morelli, parish priest at St Anthony’s Catholic Church in Warwick, explained the countless examples of selfle...
DATE: Apr 16, 2020
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Duncan Hall
A film-maker has appealed for help from the public to make a morale-boosting short film on how people had handled the stress of the Covid-19 crisis.
Milton Raposo said: “We’re so tight-knit, we all now know one person who has been affected. It’s just...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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Duncan Hall
The island’s economy will be left in tatters by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Premier warned last night.
David Burt said: “The fact is that the recession that is coming may not be like anything we have seen before. That is a fact.”
He adde...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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Duncan Hall
Two snow geese blown in by high winds have found a temporary home on St George’s golf course.
Paul Watson, a keen birdwatcher, said: “They were on the promontory near Blackbeard’s early Friday afternoon and, on Friday evening, they were on the old 13...
DATE: Apr 08, 2020
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Environment
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall