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Retailers have stopped shipping in two hot-ticket electronic gadgets in the run-up to Christmas – because the cost is prohibitive.
Games fans who wanted to buy the latest Sony PlayStation or Microsoft Xbox consoles have been frustrated by low online ...
DATE: Dec 18, 2020
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News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An Opposition senator has accused the Progressive Labour Party of turning the 2016 airport protests into a political football, using the suffering of protesters for point-scoring.
Marcus Jones of the One Bermuda Alliance said yesterday he did not wa...
DATE: Dec 17, 2020
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News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermudian journalist Ernest Tucker has been inducted into the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Hall of Fame.
The posthumous honour was awarded at a virtual ceremony yesterday.
Mr Tucker, who died last year aged 87, had a stellar career with the n...
DATE: Dec 17, 2020
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News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Senators rubber-stamped a number of Government bills during a brisk, virtual session of the Upper House yesterday morning.
Streamlining and improved efficiency were the themes of three Acts that were given their second and third readings before being...
DATE: Dec 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Firefighters yesterday battled a third vehicle fire in two days – two of them in the same St George’s neighbourhood.
Crews responded to reports of a car explosion on Pain Lane, St George’s just before 4.30am.
Residents in a nearby apartment were at ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Shipping and courier companies have been hit by the Covid-19 pandemic at their traditional busiest time of the year.
Customs officials yesterday asked the public to be patient as they processed “record numbers” of parcels.
Courier company operations ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The urgent care clinic in St. David’s will halve its weekday opening hours from the start of next week.
The Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre sees patients between 12pm and 8pm.
But the centre will open at 4pm during the week from next Monday.
X-ray serv...
DATE: Dec 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly has launched an attack on the last Governor and police service and compared them to a lynch mob.
Derrick Burgess said reports that Ewart Brown, a former Progressive Labour Party premier, was to face corrup...
DATE: Dec 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An investigation has been launched after a truck caught fire in Pembroke in the early hours of this morning.
Firefighters were called to the blaze on Curving Avenue at around 3.45am.
A spokesman for the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service, said that the ...
DATE: Dec 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Government has halved the cost of running the Legal Aid Office after introducing cost-cutting measures, the legal affairs minister has revealed.
Kathy Lynn Simmons, also the Attorney General, said the service had reduced its costs from $2.66 mill...
DATE: Dec 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan