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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
Canadian navy ships en route to support Nato forces in Europe docked in Bermuda over the weekend.
The two vessels, supply ship MV Asterix and the frigate HMCS Halifax, arrived on Saturday at King’s Wharf and Heritage Wharf in Dockyard.
They are sched...
DATE: Mar 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda is to become a field station for a new study on the songs of humpback whales, it was announced yesterday.
The study, “Sound of Science”, will explore differences in song trends and phrases between North Atlantic whales and their South Pacific...
DATE: Mar 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man who stabbed his father to death was scarred for life in childhood after he watched the “horrific” death of his little sister in a road accident, a court heard
DATE: Mar 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
MPs are expected to debate the Cannabis Licensing Act this afternoon, a year after it was turned down by the Senate
DATE: Mar 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The island logged another Covid-19 death last night, which pushed the pandemic death toll to 127.
But the number of active cases has dropped for the first time in several weeks.
There were 123 new cases recorded since Monday’s update and 157 recoveri...
DATE: Mar 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell