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The Ministry of Finance offices have reopened to the public after being closed for more than a week.
A total of 21 of the ministry’s staff were ordered to work from home earlier this month and the offices on Parliament Street, Hamilton remained empty...
DATE: Jan 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Scam artists are circulating e-mails asking recipients to provide personal information in order to claim cash prizes.
The Bermuda Police Service is urging residents to avoid responding to the hoax correspondence, warning that “if it’s too good to be...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The owners of a luxury resort responsible for the desecration of a graveyard said they had taken steps to protect the historic site and ensure that it was maintained “in perpetuity”.
A lawyer for the owners of the Rosewood Bermuda resort and golf cou...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A “wholesale review”of Bermuda’s tax system will be completed by the end of the year after legislation was passed in the Senate yesterday.
The Tax Reform Commission Amendment Act 2020 – which will enable the Minister of Finance to set up the commissi...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A bid by Opposition senators to make Hamilton docks an essential service was defeated in the Upper House yesterday afternoon.
A vote on the question was taking during debate on the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 2020.
A second...
DATE: Jan 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Staff at the Ministry of Finance are working from home after the department closed its offices on Parliament Street.
But the Government is refusing to give a reason for the closure or say when the shutdown was imposed.
In a statement issued yesterday...
DATE: Jan 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Schoolchildren will be able to sit most of their exams this summer – even though tests have been cancelled in the UK because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Public and private school students on the island sit exams set by UK examination boards.
GCSEs f...
DATE: Jan 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A collection of Bermuda banknotes from the 1960s has sold for more than $7,000 at auction.
A mint-condition ₤10 pre-decimalisation bill which was never circulated sold for $3,750 – by far the highest price tag of the 425 lots that went under the hamm...
DATE: Jan 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A Bermudian doctor who works with Covid-19 patients in the coronavirus-ravaged UK yesterday appealed to island residents to get a vaccination.
Stephanie Smith said she was horrified to watch the fear of patients as they died without their loved ones ...
DATE: Jan 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A total of five new cases of the coronavirus were announced last night.
The positives were among 896 tests that came back to health officials today.
The news meant the number of active cases has risen by three to 94.
One of the new cases came in fro...
DATE: Jan 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan