3867 results returned for search: "" category "News" author Gareth Finighan
Civic leaders and former politicians paid tribute to the Queen shortly after her death was announced this afternoon.
Charles Gosling, the Mayor of Hamilton, described the Queen as “our beloved Monarch”, and noted that she had “a special connection” t...
DATE: Sep 09, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
General
|
AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Electricity supplier Belco is urging residents to trim any trees that overhang power lines in a bid to reduce unnecessary outages.
The call came after homes in Devonshire suffered blackouts on Monday and Tuesday, both of which were caused by falling ...
DATE: Sep 08, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Weather
|
AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A charity that provides riding lessons to people with special needs will be able to expand the programme following the arrival of three new therapy ponies.
The trio – Dash, Mosaic, and Penny – will increase the programme’s capacity by 35 per cent.
Sa...
DATE: Sep 08, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Health
|
AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The life and work of a visionary environmental campaigner who strived to challenge the status quo was celebrated at a ceremony in Warwick on Saturday.
Hundreds of friends, colleagues and supporters of Stuart Jackson Hayward gathered at the Riddell's ...
DATE: Sep 06, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
General
|
AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Tropical Storm Earl is considered a potential threat to the island, the Bermuda Weather Service has warned.
As of this morning, the storm was 787 miles south of Bermuda at 6am today, however the storm is expected to travel north in the coming days, g...
DATE: Sep 05, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
General
|
AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Health agencies are working to ensure that a specialist ear, nose and throat surgeon is brought to the island as soon as possible, according to the Government.
Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, spoke out after doctors last month expressed alarm tha...
DATE: Sep 02, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Health
|
AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Ferry services will be scaled back during Monday’s Labour Day public holiday.
The Green Route between Rockaway, Cavello Bay and Watford Bridge, will be cancelled for the day, according to a government spokeswoman.
There will be no Orange Route servi...
DATE: Sep 02, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Transport
|
AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Government is to spend $4.5 million on an extensive refit of one of the oldest vessels in its fleet of ferries and tenders.
The Bermudian tender began its journey to to the Gladding-Hearn shipyard in Fall River, Massachusetts on Monday, and will ...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Transport
|
AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Dark clouds couldn’t dampen the spirits of thousands of revellers who attended the final Harbour Nights of the summer last night.
In what must have been one of the busiest nights Front Street has witnessed in several years, tourists and locals soaked...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Tourism
|
AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An amateur fisherman made the “catch of the day” after finding a message in a bottle in waters off South Shore at the weekend.
Sam Stan was in his Boston Whaler with two friends when he spotted the bottle about 300 metres off The Reefs resort in Sout...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
General
|
AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan