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Brett Jolly, a US citizen, was on a routine flight from Portugal to Newark in New Jersey on September 11, 2001.
But it turned into a flight he would never forget after al-Qaida terror attacks hit his homeland.
Mr Jolly said in a letter to The Royal G...
DATE: Sep 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Two schools yesterday held services to remember former pupils killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York 20 years ago today.
Rhondelle Tankard, at Warwick Academy between 1982 and 1987, and Boyd Gatton, who left Saltus Grammar in 1980, were bot...
DATE: Sep 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Lieutenant-Colonel David Gibbons was the Commanding Officer of the Bermuda Regiment at the time of the 9/11 terror attacks.
Colonel Gibbons, now the Honorary Colonel of the Royal Bermuda Regiment, said that the island’s soldiers and other emergency ...
DATE: Sep 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance has accused Government of poor planning after it closed schools at short notice.
Public school pupils were due to go back to the classroom today for the start of the new academic year.
But on Tuesday Diallo Rabain,...
DATE: Sep 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Drugs with a street value of $500,000 have been seized by police following a raid in the east end.
The narcotics, including cannabis, crack cocaine, powder cocaine and heroin were recovered during a “recent exercise”, although police did not give an ...
DATE: Sep 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Officials are confident that Hurricane Larry will have only a minor impact on the island in the next 24 hours.
Renée Ming, the minister for national security, made the announcement after a meeting of the Emergency Measures Organisation today.
Ms Min...
DATE: Sep 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Public schools will hold remote lessons when children go back to school on Thursday in the wake of a surge in Covid-19 cases.
The ruling was made after a meeting of the Education Emergency Measures Committee (EEMC) today.
Diallo Rabain, the education...
DATE: Sep 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A team of health professionals working with the intellectually disabled has moved to new offices.
The Community Intellectual Disability Team – which provides a range of services for intellectual disability clients and their families at home – was pr...
DATE: Sep 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Telecommunications company Digicel is to make ten staff redundant.
A spokesman for the company said the cuts were being made to “optimise our cost base”.
He added: “We can confirm that in the coming weeks ten staff members will be made redundant out ...
DATE: Sep 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The traditional Labour Day celebrations have become the latest victim of Covid-19 after organisers called off the event.
The day, held on the first Monday of September, is marked with a march through Hamilton by representatives of all the island’s un...
DATE: Sep 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan