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The family of a woman believed to have been murdered are suffering a “very traumatic experience” as questions over her disappearance remain unanswered, a detective has said.
Detective Sergeant Jason Smith added that police still hoped to find Chavell...
DATE: Oct 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A sculpture valued at $10,000 has been donated to a charity shop to raise funds for a project that will help support struggling mothers.
The fibreglass whale’s tale is on display in the window of Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore on Front Street. Mark P...
DATE: Oct 08, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Police launched an investigation yesterday after three men broke into a petrol station.
A Bermuda Police Service spokesman said that officers on patrol on St John’s Road in Pembroke saw three men near the Rubis service station in the early hours of y...
DATE: Oct 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A man was stabbed in the chest in the Dockyard in the early hours of yesterday.
A police spokesman said: “Upon arrival, officers observed a male lying on his back at the entrance to Snorkel Park and bleeding from a stab wound to his chest.”
He added ...
DATE: Oct 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A new team at the helm of Belco is expected to restore faith in the power company, the Minister of Home Affairs said yesterday.
Walter Roban claimed that public confidence in the electricity provider was at an “all-time low” — but predicted that woul...
DATE: Oct 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An expert in public policy and European affairs will be the new Government of Bermuda representative in Brussels.
Aliyyah Ahad will take over from Renée Webb, whose appointment to the post was announced in January 2019.
Ms Ahad has lived and worked i...
DATE: Oct 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Cabinet ministers and a senator team will be sworn in next week, it was confirmed yesterday.
A government spokeswoman said that David Burt, the Premier, met John Rankin, the Governor, in the wake of the Progressive Labour Party’s landslide General El...
DATE: Oct 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Disillusioned residents may have “voted in their seat” and stayed away from the polls yesterday, a political commentator said.
Ashfield DeVent believed that the absence of thousands of eligible voters from the ballot boxes sent a message to the incom...
DATE: Oct 02, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Voters were asked to “take a leap” yesterday and “speak boldly” when they went to the polls today.
Craig Cannonier, the leader of the One Bermuda Alliance, added that his party had learnt from its time in government from 2012 to 2017.
He said: “You h...
DATE: Oct 01, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Bermuda Government said it planned to clarify an executive order made by the Governor of New York that ruled travellers from all but 31 countries must be alerted to mandatory quarantine requirements when they entered the state.
International arri...
DATE: Oct 01, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter