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A cancer specialist is to deliver a free online talk on the environment and cancer this week.
Chris Fosker, a cancer specialist, will give the presentation and take questions from the public on Thursday.
Dr Fosker will review ways the natural environ...
DATE: Mar 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Railway Trail bridge over Flatts Inlet is to get access ramps installed this spring, MPs heard yesterday.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works minister, told the House of Assembly the Department of Parks continued to collaborate with ...
DATE: Mar 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An economic recovery plan for Bermuda will include high-earning new industries such as medical tourism, vertical farming and residential schemes, MPs heard this morning.
Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, added the casino industry, sub-sea commu...
DATE: Mar 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Vaccination against the coronavirus today opened to all residents over the age of 16.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, told the House of Assembly that the Government’s vaccination campaign was “our best chance of moving beyond the pandemic”.
She said...
DATE: Mar 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A love of the law that started in high school has led to a Call to the Bar.
Amelia Oatley thanked magistrate Maxanne Anderson and senior magistrate Juan Wolffe, who she said “inspired, encouraged and supported me throughout my journey”.
She added: “I...
DATE: Mar 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The first step in the biggest change in decades in Bermuda’s public education system has been approved by MPs.
Senior level “signature schools” required to offer one or more “signature learning programmes” will be introduced under the changes.
Diallo...
DATE: Mar 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Six new coronavirus infections were recorded yesterday, it was revealed last night.
The positive tests were among 758 results that came back to health officials yesterday.
All were classed as on-island transmissions with known contacts.
The latest ca...
DATE: Mar 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Cemetery Road next to the Belco power plant will be closed this weekend.
A trench will be dug between the firm’s old and new power stations in Pembroke, on the stretch between Cemetery Lane and the bridge next to Gorham’s hardware store.
No public ac...
DATE: Mar 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The year-long battle against the Covid-19 pandemic was remembered by the health minister yesterday as the island marks the anniversary of the island’s first cases today.
Kim Wilson admitted she was almost overwhelmed in the pandemic’s early stages as...
DATE: Mar 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police broke up a birthday party that breached Covid-19 regulations on Sunday night.
A police spokesman said the organiser, a 40-year-old woman, was reported for prosecution.
The venue, said to be a guest house in the East End, was not identified.
A ...
DATE: Mar 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell