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Opportunities for disabled people to sail on a specially adapted tall ship will be offered again thanks to the Bermuda Sailors’ Home.
The organisation said that a trip from Antigua on the Tenacious, which is owned by the British-based Jubilee Sailing...
DATE: Aug 05, 2020
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Consultants have been asked to help come up with a regulatory framework and plan to develop laws for water and wastewater operations.
The Government told potential bidders that the work of organisations such as the Regulatory Authority and Environmen...
DATE: Aug 05, 2020
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Environment
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Fiona McWhirter
A fresh call for the public, businesses and the Government to back non-profit organisations was made yesterday as they battle the financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Bermuda Foundation warned in a report that the charitable sector was “lar...
DATE: Aug 05, 2020
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A new head of the immigration board is to be appointed after its chairwoman became a member of the Cabinet.
Renée Ming, the Progressive Labour Party MP for St George’s North and board chairwoman, took over as Minister of National Security last month ...
DATE: Aug 03, 2020
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A combination of home clear-outs and redecorations may have been a boost to a new shop set up to raise funds for charity.
Barbara Belton-Brown, a board member at Habitat for Humanity of Bermuda, which opened its ReStore last month, said that the vent...
DATE: Jul 29, 2020
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Fiona McWhirter
An investigation into the case of a one-year-old boy who suffered a serious head injury has been reopened by police.
The incident resulted in the government-imposed shut down of Heavenly Blessings Nursery and Preschool, but the closure order was lift...
DATE: Jul 28, 2020
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Fiona McWhirter
The cancellation of Cup Match could make policing the holiday period “a bit challenging”, a senior officer admitted yesterday.
But Detective Superintendent Sean Field-Lament added that a combination of units at fixed points and roaming patrols will h...
DATE: Jul 28, 2020
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A detective asked residents to “be bold” today when police made a renewed appeal for information about the murder of a well-known dancer two years ago.
Taylor Grier was shot on a busy Court Street at about 10pm on July 27, 2018.
Detective Sergeant De...
DATE: Jul 28, 2020
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Crime
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Fiona McWhirter
A sign to mark Mary Prince Emancipation Park was unveiled in honour of the enslaved Bermudian who gained her freedom and became a hero of the abolitionist movement in Britain.
Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Community Affairs and Sport, said that publ...
DATE: Jul 28, 2020
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Fiona McWhirter
A Cabinet member said that he offered to meet the leader of the island’s white-collar union today to discuss alleged attempts by health ministry staff to bring down a scientist in the front line of the battle against Covid-19.
Lieutenant-Colonel Davi...
DATE: Jul 27, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter