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Three International experts have been signed up to strengthen conservation efforts in the Sargasso Sea.
The trio – Mark Spalding, Stephen de Mora, and Ana Colaço – have been made members of Sargasso Sea Commission, established by the Hamilton Declara...
DATE: Sep 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Disruptions to bus and ferry services look set to continue after transport bosses and drivers failed to reach an agreement over Covid-19-related health and safety practices.
Yesterday morning Lawrence Scott, the Minister of Transport, said that the t...
DATE: Sep 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Public sector staff face a “revolving door” of sickness and quarantine because of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was claimed yesterday.
Bus and ferry service representatives said that schedules had been devastated by mass absenteeism – with staff unable t...
DATE: Sep 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Frontline healthcare workers are being fed on the job through a free meals delivery service.
Food is being delivered to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s emergency department and intensive care unit on a regular basis through Meal Train, a sch...
DATE: Sep 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Insurance company Catalina Holdings has donated 30 filled school backpacks to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bermuda to support students in need.
Tina Rego, chairwoman of the company’s environmental, social and governance committee, said: “During a peri...
DATE: Sep 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
England is to ease travel restrictions for arrivals from Covid-19 low-risk countries, including Bermuda, next month.
Anyone flying to England from destinations designated as low-risk from October 4 will not have to take a pre-departure Covid-19 test ...
DATE: Sep 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
It’s hard to imagine what life was like 100 years ago. Back in the 1920s, Bermuda really was a different world.
There were no cars or television sets, no telephones, no freshly imported good flying in from foreign shores, none of today’s modern luxu...
DATE: Sep 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Striking bus drivers have dismissed claims by Department of Transport chiefs that staff safety is a priority – after revealing that more than 30 operators have been struck down or affected by the Covid-19 virus.
Bus services ground to a halt late on ...
DATE: Sep 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Another Covid-19 death was announced last night as the number of active infections increased to 1,238.
The grim news meant that the death toll now stands at 38, with 51 people in hospital, 13 of them in intensive care.
The island recorded another 191...
DATE: Sep 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police said this morning that a missing teenager has been found safe and well.
Shavon Hayward, 17, was last seen at the Boaz Island Community Centre, at around 11.30pm yesterday.
At the time she was wearing black pants, a black jacket and carrying a ...
DATE: Sep 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan