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The group Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda has appointed Stacey-Lee Williams as its first full-time and permanent executive director.
The antiracism charity said Ms Williams came to the role with more than two decades’ service in education and di...
DATE: Apr 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Community and sports clubs have been awarded $175,000 from the Government's confiscated assets and capital development grant programme.
Cheques were presented by David Burt, the Premier and finance minister, to clubs to upgrade facilities, buy new eq...
DATE: Apr 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Pictures and stories about people and everyday life in Bermuda are being hunted by the National Museum of Bermuda.
The community crowd sourcing project was designed to amass old family photographs and their associated stories to become part of the NM...
DATE: Apr 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Top health officials reported one more Covid-19 death as social distancing restrictions are further eased from tomorrow
DATE: Mar 31, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Premier was last night engulfed in a fresh crisis after a minister he claimed he fired insisted that she had quit over a series of problems.
Renée Ming, who was the national security minister, said: “I resigned from the Premier’s Cabinet.”
But sh...
DATE: Mar 31, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Electricity bills will go up on Friday after a rate increase for the island’s power provider was approved.
The Regulatory Authority, which oversees energy and telecommunications in Bermuda, has given Belco the green light for a hike of about 11.4 per...
DATE: Mar 31, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A newly launched study of whale song in Bermuda waters could reveal what “phrases” are shared across groups as humpbacks pass the island.
All humpbacks make noise underwater – but only the males are known to sing.
Marine biologist Nan Hauser, who hel...
DATE: Mar 31, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Governor will not automatically sign into law legislation to allow the legal growth and sale cannabis if it is ruled to be not in line with United Nations drugs conventions.
Rena Lalgie is expected to be asked to approve the Cannabis Licensing Ac...
DATE: Mar 30, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A pressure group looking at a law suit against the Government over allegations of mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic yesterday claimed many were afraid to speak out against the restrictions.
Eugene Dean of the Collective Action Solidarity Trust s...
DATE: Mar 30, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s Covid-19 numbers continued to fall last night with a drop of 36 to 241 from the 277 active cases recorded last Thursday.
There were ten people in hospital, one of them in intensive care.
The island’s death toll from Covid-19 rose to 127 at ...
DATE: Mar 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell