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Bermuda’s confirmed active cases of Covid-19 have nearly doubled in the past week, health officials revealed yesterday – with 75 cases, including one person being treated in hospital.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, also listed the easing of a strin...
DATE: Oct 06, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A green transport entrepreneur, riding high on a new e-scooter service, is offering free rides to get more cars off the island’s roads.
Alex Marshall, founder of the Whip Ride Share business, launched in May, spoke this week after the service passed ...
DATE: Oct 06, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police have seized suspected cannabis, $10,000 in cash and jewellery after raiding four homes.
Five people were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to import controlled drugs, firearms and ammunition into Bermuda, as well as money laundering offences...
DATE: Oct 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Devonshire couple were on cloud nine this week after capturing an image so bizarre that the man who photographed it thought people would doubt his sanity.
“I’m glad my wife was with me, because otherwise nobody would believe it,” Keith Purvey told ...
DATE: Oct 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Opposition has accused the Government of failing to heed years of red flags over the troubled cryptocurrency firm Arbitrade.
The remarks came as the Government pledged to work with authorities overseas if the company or its backers were found to ...
DATE: Oct 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda ranked highly in a coveted reader’s choice awards for leading tourism magazine Condé Nast Traveler.
The Bermuda Tourism Authority hailed the recognition, as number four out of 20 in the Islands of the Caribbean and Atlantic category, as a win...
DATE: Oct 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Tourism Authority has a new vice-president of sales and business development.
Devin Lewis posted online that she would be headed to New York to take up the post – writing: “My heart is bursting with pride and excitement as I announce my l...
DATE: Oct 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A woman who said she accidentally brought a pistol magazine with bullets to the island embraced her family outside Magistrates’ Court yesterday after she was handed a conditional discharge for the offence.
Rhea Virgil, 23, a Bermudian who lives in Lo...
DATE: Oct 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The number of road collisions fell in the third quarter of this year compared with the same period for the past three years, police said yesterday.
But driving while impaired remained “prevalent”, a spokesman said.
The island recorded 264 road traffi...
DATE: Oct 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The island’s soaring cost of living will be the topic of a series of town hall meetings organised this month by the Bermuda Industrial Union.
The move comes in the wake of legislation tabled on Friday in the House of Assembly to eliminate import duti...
DATE: Oct 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell