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Visitor arrivals nosedived in the first three months of the year because of the pandemic, it was revealed yesterday.
But tourism chiefs were optimistic that numbers could pick up later in the year as vaccination programmes around the world gather pac...
DATE: May 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Fluorescent vapour clouds could be visible over Bermuda tonight when a Nasa rocket is launched into orbit – a day later than planned.
The rocket will lift off from a Nasa base in Virginia and release barium vapour while still in the atmosphere.
The g...
DATE: May 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Fire crews responded to more than 700 calls over March and April, it was revealed yesterday.
March was the busiest of the two months, when Bermuda Fire & Rescue Service staff answered 376 calls.
A total of 187 were medical emergencies – including roa...
DATE: May 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A Bermudian academic has broken new ground after she was elected Dean of Faculty at one of America’s most prestigious universities.
Born in New York and raised in Bermuda, Eve De Rosa will take up the post at Ivy League Cornell University in New York...
DATE: May 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A lawyer has backed plans to quarantine arrivals without a Covid-19 vaccination at a special Government centre.
Mark Diel said that public safety considerations had to override personal freedom in a crisis.
Mr Diel, of law firm Marshall, Diel & Myers...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
American television network NBC has highlighted the pandemic perils of overseas travel after one of its producers was forced to quarantine in Bermuda.
Mimi Segal, an NBC10Boston producer, said that she and her husband planned a break on the island af...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The acting US Consul General has left the island after just three months in the post, it was announced today.
Alan Purcell, a career diplomat, came to Bermuda at the end of January after the election of Democrat Joe Biden as US president.
It is under...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An inquiry into historic land losses was yesterday branded a sham by witnesses who claimed they were gagged from giving evidence at the hearing.
Now complainants have taken legal action to ask for a judicial review of the commission.
Myron Piper and ...
DATE: May 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A rare Bermuda coin - possibly dating back to the 1700s - has sold at auction for more than $30,000.
The coin went under the hammer in London on Tuesday, and was expected to sell for between $7,000 and $11,000, but the successful bidder eventually pa...
DATE: May 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The new owners of the historic Cambridge Beaches resort have revealed they are planning a three-year upgrade of the facility.
Dovetail + Co, which describes itself as ’an owner, developer and operator of genuine and imaginative hospitality’, als...
DATE: May 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan