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Elective surgeries and outpatient clinics are scheduled to return to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital next month, it was revealed last night.
Wesley Miller, the chief of staff for Bermuda Hospitals Board, reported a “significant” ease in the hos...
DATE: Oct 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Around 2,000 booster shots of coronavirus have been administered island-wide, the health minister announced yesterday.
Kim Wilson said boosters were being administered at nursing homes, the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and the National Sports Ce...
DATE: Oct 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Artists were today asked to use their talent in Christmas competition inspired by Olympic champion Flora Duffy.
Her achievement as the island’s first Olympic gold medal winner is the basis for the second annual festive wrapping paper design competiti...
DATE: Oct 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Active Covid-19 cases have dropped to 258 – below the levels at the start of the island’s latest outbreak at the end of August.
There are now 29 people in hospital with the illness, with six in intensive care – down from the 35 in hospital with nine ...
DATE: Oct 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
New online and e-mail scams have led to substantial cash losses, police warned today.
A spokesman said fraudsters who posed as family members or friends had contacted people on social media platforms such as Instagram and promised a same-day return o...
DATE: Oct 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A charity set up in the name of Olympic triathlon champion Flora Duffy to sponsor budding sports stars has been given $10,000 by a bank.
The cash was donated to the Flora Fund by Clarien Bank.
Ms Duffy said: “Looking back, as I cannot help but do thi...
DATE: Oct 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda is set to lose its direct air service to Boston, a major US gateway city, when JetBlue airlines cuts its service at the end of this month.
The quick flight to Boston is a popular link for Bermudian students in the US as well as for medical tr...
DATE: Oct 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
It was quite a day for Flora Duffy who will now see her name emblazoned around the island in recognition of her historic Olympic gold medal.
During a national holiday honouring Flora yesterday, the National Stadium was named the Flora Duffy South Fie...
DATE: Oct 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Union heads have called on their members to get vaccinated, highlighting the “alarming numbers” of deaths from Covid-19.
The Bermuda Industrial Union’s executive sent out the letter on Friday to all its members, urging people to speak with their fami...
DATE: Oct 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Bermudian aid worker who devoted the last 12 years to building a better life for Haitian children said that conditions in the stricken Caribbean country had descended to the worst he had ever seen.
“I have seen devastation, but this is a whole diff...
DATE: Oct 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell