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Bermuda has recorded a further 33 cases of Covid-19 today, bringing the number of active cases to 213.
But David Burt, the Premier, said that, while continued high numbers of coronavirus cases were to be expected, the return of lockdown would only co...
DATE: Mar 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The finance minister told MPs he was “disappointed” that the Auditor-General was unable to give a clean audit for the latest financial statements of the Government’s general operating fund.
Curtis Dickinson said the Government should be “setting an e...
DATE: Mar 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A “warrior for Bermuda” was mourned yesterday in the House of Assembly.
Jan Martin, a founding member of the pressure group Move Bermuda, died this week aged 59.
David Burt, the Premier, said Ms Martin was a “Progressive Labour Party stalwart”.
Move ...
DATE: Mar 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A more contagious strain of the coronavirus that has spread into the island’s schools came as a result of the “poor behaviour of adults”, MPs heard this morning.
Diallo Rabain, the education minister, addressed the House of Assembly on moves taken o...
DATE: Mar 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Repairs at Darrell’s Wharf and the railings at Flatts Bridge are to be awarded to contractors next week.
Other “shovel ready” infrastructure works put out for quotes under the Government’s stimulus programme are works on Artemis buildings, highway fe...
DATE: Mar 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Two new test centres for the coronavirus have been added by the Ministry of Health for next week.
The pop-up locations are at the Transport Control Department in Pembroke and the Horseshoe Bay Beach car park in Southampton.
TCD can be used at the out...
DATE: Mar 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police yesterday renewed their appeal for help from the community in cracking a string of at least six suspicious fires over the past two weeks in the Pembroke and central region of the island.
Acting Inspector Clifford Roberts, speaking in front of ...
DATE: Mar 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A cruise ship sailing from a home port in Bermuda this summer is expected to make 12 voyages from Dockyard, Government revealed yesterday.
Royal Caribbean announced on Tuesday that the Vision of the Seas, docked this week in the British Virgin Island...
DATE: Mar 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda is to join forces with Fort Lauderdale, Florida on collaborative marketing to attract super yachts to both destinations.
The memorandum of understanding is for a two-year partnership to “entice vessels leaving one destination to head to the o...
DATE: Mar 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A police team has been assigned to investigate a spate of fires “in and around the central Pembroke area in recent weeks”, according to Detective Superintendent Nicholas Pedro.
Mr Pedro said: “These events are not currently known to be linked, but we...
DATE: Mar 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell