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Year-round daily flights from Bermuda to New York’s JFK airport will resume in November from American Airlines, the Bermuda Tourism Authority has announced.
The BTA said the restored flights, halted in March 2020 by the advent of the pandemic, would ...
DATE: May 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda Maritime Operations have been assisting Canadian and US authorities with broadcast inquiries at sea after a sailboat that left Bermuda for Nova Scotia on May 16 prompted concerns.
A staff member at BMO said the sailboat Strange Situation had ...
DATE: May 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s national bird, once thought to be extinct, has set another record on its road to recovery.
Cahow chicks are now fledging on their island refuge at Castle Harbour – meaning they will set off on their first flights out to sea from now until m...
DATE: May 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s marine conservation got an up-close viewing by British officials as Paul Candler, director of the Overseas Territories directorate in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, called on the island.
Mr Candler was accompanied on the ...
DATE: May 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man who set a fire that torched two cars adjacent to a Hamilton Parish house with a family inside has been handed a two-year suspended prison sentence by the Supreme Court.
Justice Iris, 25, admitted two counts of wilful damage at an earlier court ...
DATE: May 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An expectant crowd set up today in Hamilton in pent-up anticipation of Bermuda Day’s return as parade participants made their final preparations.
Lined with tents and thumping with music, Front Street at noon had the buzz of an island happy to regain...
DATE: May 27, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Messages of goodwill for Bermuda Day 2022 came from David Burt, the Premier, as well as Ernest Peets, the Minister of Youth, Culture and Sport, and Cole Simons, the Leader of the Opposition.
Mr Burt told the community the day represented “time for us...
DATE: May 27, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Preserving histories of schools facing closure under public education reforms is to go ahead with the selection of members for a history and legacy committee.
Diallo Rabain, the education minister, updated the House of Assembly on Friday after a grou...
DATE: May 27, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A 62-year-old male visitor from the US sustained potentially serious leg injuries yesterday in a crash involving a rental scooter and a van on South Road in Hamilton Parish, a police spokesman said.
The collision at about 3.30pm occurred near the jun...
DATE: May 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A 10-year-old boy was yesterday treated and released after being struck by a car in Pembroke.
A police spokesman said the boy was struck by a car in the eastbound lane as he attempted to cross Marsh Folly Road at about 3.30pm.
The boy was taken to Ki...
DATE: May 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell