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Firefighters tackled a fire in a garden shed on Sunday night.
A fire service spokesman said: “On arrival, fire crews found a shed approximately 12 feet by 12 feet fully engulfed in fire.
“Fire crews quickly extinguished the blaze. The cause of the f...
DATE: Feb 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Firefighters put out a blaze at the Fourways Inn restaurant in Warwick on Sunday afternoon.
According to a Bermuda Fire and Rescue spokesman, crews were alerted to the fire just after 2.30pm.
A team of eight firefighters from the Hamilton and Port Ro...
DATE: Feb 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Royal Bermuda Regiment’s latest soldiers today started to settle into two weeks of tough training.
The group of 16 – 14 men and two women – arrived at Warwick Camp and were issued their uniforms and kit.
They were also briefed on Covid-19 precaut...
DATE: Feb 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The island’s parks are being destroyed by bike riders who cause erosion and “deep ruts” in pathways, according to a leading conservationist
David Wingate added that the needs of cyclists and pedestrians were “incompatible”, and that bikers should be...
DATE: Feb 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Two civil servants have been recognised for their “exemplary service” to the island’s agricultural output.
Thomas Sinclair and Maxwell Dill were presented with Public Service Excellence Awards last week by David Burt, the Premier.
They head up govern...
DATE: Feb 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Diana Maya, a senior florist at the Exclusive Flowers store on Reid Street, and Deelight Kelly, prepare bouquets ahead of Valentine’s Day today.
The store had shipped in hundreds of red roses in anticipation of a rush on orders, but challenges to s...
DATE: Feb 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A police officer who broke his ankle during a training exercise is suing the service for negligence
DATE: Feb 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Government’s website is now operational after crashing earlier today.
A spokeswoman said that it had experienced “a significant online outage”, which resulted in disruptions to a number of online services, putting the government portal www.gov.bm...
DATE: Feb 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A judicial review into the Commission of Inquiry into Historical Loss of Land is set to go ahead after the Governor agreed to bring in an overseas judge to hear the matter.
The call for a review of the commission’s conduct was first made in January, ...
DATE: Feb 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Government refused yesterday to discuss progress on a flagship series of measures designed to get the economy under way in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis.
Curtis Dickinson, the Minister for Finance, unveiled the economic recovery plan last March...
DATE: Feb 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan