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Bermuda’s heroes of the fire service were celebrated at an awards ceremony yesterday with a salute to “the Covid 12” of recruits who persevered through their training in the depths of a pandemic.
Acting Fire Chief Dana Lovell took the stage at Hamilt...
DATE: Sep 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Government aims to raise the working population by 25 per cent over the next five years in an “aggressive” strategy to head off a rapidly ageing population, the economy and labour minister revealed this afternoon.
Jason Hayward announced ...
DATE: Sep 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s working population as it currently stands will be “unable to support the local economy in years to come” as the island faces a profound demographic shift.
A brief document made public yesterday by the Ministry of Economy and Labour sets amb...
DATE: Sep 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Ministry of Health is seeking supplies of a newly approved booster vaccine against Covid-19 that could ward off infectious fresh strains of the virus now responsible for waves of new cases worldwide.
The updated booster could prove effective agai...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The wait is over for lovers of local lobsters, as the 2022-23 season opens from tomorrow until the end of next March.
But a decline in numbers of the local Caribbean spiny lobster, whose population has been hit by the loss of seagrass habitats, means...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Residents should put their garbage out one day after their normal collection day next week because of Monday’s Labour Day holiday, the Ministry of Public Works has advised.
The City of Hamilton separately issued a holiday timetable.
For residents isl...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An East End road lane closure for the Bermuda Land Development Company to finish trenching work has been extended to the end of September, according to the Ministry of Public Works.
Other closures in Devonshire for Belco trenching have also been exte...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A news trove from 1940, stashed inside the walls of a Fairylands home undergoing demolition, yielded an unexpected time capsule for a construction worker and his son.
One man’s trash became another’s treasure as Sanuel Phillips and his son Jeremiah h...
DATE: Aug 31, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Four Bermudian students have been unveiled as this year’s winners of the Nicholl Scholarships, worth $25,000 annually.
The group are joining courses from journalism to palaeontology, political science and nursing.
The Nicholl Scholarships, named afte...
DATE: Aug 31, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A cruise ship custom-built by Celebrity Cruises to call on Bermuda has come to the end of its career.
The former MV Horizon, which has spent the past two years out of service, headed this month to a scrapyard in Turkey, according to Cruise Industry N...
DATE: Aug 31, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell