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Questions about a controversial plan to set up a Bermuda Post Office shipping service in partnership with a foreign courier firm have been stonewalled by the Government.
Wayne Furbert, the minister for the Cabinet Office, also declined to comment on ...
DATE: Oct 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A cruise ship prevented from docking by high winds for two days appears to have made it today.
By 8.30am, the Norwegian Breakaway was tied up alongside the Royal Naval Dockyard after making her way along the North Shore.
Her arrival on Wednesday had ...
DATE: Oct 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A Robin Hood restaurant manager recalled how customers dropped to the floor in terror as soon as shots were fired during the double murder on Tuesday night.
Zakaria Ibraheem was in the restaurant’s dining room when he saw a gunman rush through the f...
DATE: Oct 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
International business has become the island’s largest employer, according to the latest job statistics.
Civil Servants make up the second largest job category following an increase in employment in the sector in each of the past three years.
But job...
DATE: Oct 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Volunteers carried out a clean-up operation on a section of the Railway Trail on Sunday.
As part of celebrations to mark Bermuda International Long Term Insurers and Reinsurers’ tenth anniversary, the organisation has adopted a section of the Railwa...
DATE: Oct 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Several people were shot last night after gunfire erupted in a busy bar.
Terrified customers scattered after what was said to be at least six shots were fired at the Robin Hood bar and restaurant on Richmond Road at about 6pm.
Police said four people...
DATE: Oct 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Administrative tasks in the police service have been sidelined because of job cuts, it was claimed yesterday.
Acting Commissioner of Police Darrin Simons said that there had been “a real fight” on where to deploy police officers.
But he added it was ...
DATE: Oct 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An environmental pressure group has appealed to the Government to “take a progressive stance and truly be a role model in the fight against climate change”.
The Bermuda Clean Air Coalition made the call just before next month’s UN Global Climate Chan...
DATE: Oct 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The career of late Bermudian actor Earl Cameron has been highlighted in a London newspaper as part of the UK’s Black History Month.
Mr Cameron, who died last year aged 102, is one of three actors in the MyLondon article “who started their careers at ...
DATE: Oct 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Government has been accused of sending “offensive” letters to property owners that demanded entry to their houses to check if they were dodging extra tax payments for home improvements.
One woman who received a land valuation department letter sa...
DATE: Oct 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan