681 results returned for search: "" category "General" author Gareth Finighan
More than 100 copies of a bestselling book on antiracism have been donated to schools and libraries across the island.
How to be an Antiracist, by US scholar and historian Ibram X. Kendi, gives readers practical advice on what they can do to crea...
DATE: Mar 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An association set up to promote the welfare of former and serving soldiers is to celebrate its first anniversary with a recruitment drive.
Major Preston Gill, a serving Royal Bermuda Regiment officer and the Royal Bermuda Regiment Association presid...
DATE: Feb 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Hospital chefs said they could dispel a belief that hospital food was unappetising after they completed a nutrition course.
Members of the Bermuda Hospitals Board’s food services team took the 16-week course in nutrition run by registered dietitian A...
DATE: Feb 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The annual Bermuda Agricultural Exhibition will go ahead this year – but with a difference.
The display of farm animals and agricultural products will be held on a virtual basis for the first time because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Visitors will not b...
DATE: Feb 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The City of Hamilton’s sewage system has been given a boost after solar panels were installed at a pumping station.
The 78 panels on the Front Street building are expected to save the City $30,000 a year in electricity costs.
Charles Waters, the cor...
DATE: Feb 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Government is calling for volunteers to help man its emergency disaster shelter.
Tinee Furbert, the minister of social development and seniors, made the plea at a press conference this morning.
The shelter, which is housed at CedarBridge Academy, is...
DATE: Feb 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Mangrove Bay post office will be closed today, causing possible delays in mail delivery.
A government spokeswoman said that the closure was necessary after work was carried out at the building over the weekend.
“Mail delivery will be impacted tod...
DATE: Feb 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
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A noted academic is to be honoured at a special dinner celebrating Black History Month next week.
Clarence Maxwell, an assistant professor of History at Millersville University in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, will be guest of honour at t...
DATE: Feb 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Transport workers walked off the job yesterday because of a dispute over “an ongoing disciplinary matter”, it has been revealed.
And the Bermuda Public Services Union has taken a swipe at transport officials, claiming that the matter was resolved onl...
DATE: Feb 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Buses were back on the roads last night after industrial action by staff meant the service ground to a halt.
The unannounced walkout by Department of Transportation supervisors started yesterday morning and , left many passengers stranded.
But a tran...
DATE: Feb 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan