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A high volume of emergency visits and pressure on hospital beds means that the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre will be closed on weekdays for at least a month, the Bermuda Hospitals Board said today.
Medical staff will be focused “where the most unwell...
DATE: Oct 20, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Hundreds of trees will be planted in a three-year partnership between a financial institution and a preservation charity.
Clarien Bank announced that it will team up with the Bermuda National Trust to add native and endemic specimens as well as shrub...
DATE: Oct 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Bermuda Tourism Authority is seeking to extend the existence of a Front Street visitor hub that cost $1.3 million and was due to be removed next February – less than four years after it opened.
It got the go-ahead in 2017 for a structure made of ...
DATE: Oct 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Laws designed to keep more money in people’s pockets were passed in the Senate on Wednesday.
They included legislation that will make sure hospitality staff do not hand over payroll tax on gratuities, instant stamp duty relief for first-time homebuye...
DATE: Oct 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A programme management office is being set up within the Government as part of its efforts to deliver universal health coverage, senators heard on Wednesday.
Arianna Hodgson, the junior health minister, also told the Upper House that KPMG, a professi...
DATE: Oct 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Pupils in Bermuda’s first signature learning programmes feel excited and that the lessons are “authentic”, senators heard yesterday.
Owen Darrell, the junior education minister, said that attitudes were positive after the launch of the schemes at the...
DATE: Oct 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An Assistant Commissioner of Police noted “striking similarities” in the challenges faced by Bermuda and Caribbean islands after an international law enforcement conference.
Antoine Daniels and Michael Weeks, the Minister of National Security, recent...
DATE: Oct 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A government MP told police he understood an event partly organised by his daughter when coronavirus restrictions were in place was expected to be like functions held in Miami or Las Vegas, a court heard.
Jurors watched footage from October 2020, whe...
DATE: Oct 11, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Meals On Wheels ‘fundraiser’ at Blu Restaurant during height of pandemic called into question
DATE: Oct 07, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A musical comedy that “embraces the wackiness in every family” opened for its first of 11 shows last night.
The Addams Family, staged by the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Bermuda, will run at the Earl Cameron Theatre in City Hall.
A synopsis on...
DATE: Oct 07, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter