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Drivers have been warned to heed one-way signs at Khyber Pass in St George, where a police spokesman said there have been several near misses reported.
The road only permits northbound traffic.
Drivers have gone south either to access paths on the St...
DATE: Oct 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Three more deaths from Covid-19 were announced last night, raising the death toll from the virus to 95.
But active cases have dropped to 474 from the 658 at the last update. It brings case numbers below the 537 recorded for September 5, early in the...
DATE: Oct 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Elective surgeries, put on hold as King Edward VII Memorial Hospital grapples with the island’s worst outbreak of Covid-19, are expected to restart soon.
Wesley Miller, the chief of staff for Bermuda Hospitals Board, said admissions for the illness h...
DATE: Oct 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Covid-19 report card from a parliamentary committee would be best placed to evaluate the Government’s handling of the pandemic, David Burt said.
The Premier said it was “the job of legislators to scrutinise the work of the executive”, and the parli...
DATE: Oct 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Fast-tracked coronavirus tests are planned for incoming travellers – especially people on business – to get cleared quickly on arrival.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, said talks on the move were ongoing with the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce. She sai...
DATE: Oct 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Legislation is in the works to cut the price of fuel, according to Walter Roban, the home affairs minister.
Mr Roban said there was scope to buffer the island from “the instability of fuel as it relates to international prices”.
Oil prices surged thi...
DATE: Oct 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Walter Roban, the home affairs minister, will go to Glasgow, Scotland, to attend COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Mr Roban said he would carry the views of Bermuda’s young people with him.
The minister, who met student demonstrato...
DATE: Oct 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A gym owner has appealed to others in the sector to adopt the SafeKey scheme and insisted that the precaution against Covid-19 did not have to be a deal-breaker for business.
Natalie Flood said she hoped it would “inspire other business owners rather...
DATE: Oct 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A file on the death of a man who lost consciousness after what was at first said by police to be a domestic dispute has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Stuart Lottimore, 54, died after the incident on June 11 at his home on My Lord’...
DATE: Oct 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Three more deaths from Covid-19 have brought the island’s toll from the coronavirus to 92, it was revealed last night.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, added that there were 35 new cases out of 5,141 test results that came back to health officials si...
DATE: Oct 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell