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The Royal Fleet Auxiliary captain of a disaster relief ship that delivered life-saving hurricane aid to the Caribbean has died.
Rob Anders was 49.
Captain Anders, who skippered RFA Mounts Bay over a three-year deployment to the Caribbean, was appoin...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Drivers were tonight to avoid the area of Barker’s Hill on North Shore in Devonshire, where the roads are blocked after a crash.
A police spokesman said at about 7pm there had been a single vehicle collision on North Shore Road near the roundabout.
DATE: Jan 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A “consummate hotelier” and former president of the Bermuda Hotel Association has died.
David Boyd was 76.
Mr Boyd was president and manager of the Sonesta Beach Hotel in Southampton from 1989 to 1996, when he stepped down for health reasons.
Mr Boyd...
DATE: Jan 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s Covid-19 status has been upgraded from “clusters of cases” to “sporadic cases” by the Pan American Health Organisation, it was revealed last night.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the change was “good news for Bermuda and represents t...
DATE: Jan 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man yesterday appealed to trash dumpers to stop leaving waste on protected land after his pet dog was seriously injured by broken glass.
Jonathan Northcott said his Dutch Shepherd, Gypsy, needed emergency surgery on a deep cut to a paw suffered at ...
DATE: Jan 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Supreme Court judge is to issue a ruling next month on whether the Commissioner of Police can challenge an order to reinstate an officer fired for gross misconduct.
The Public Service Commission ruled last August that Police Constable Oswin Pereira...
DATE: Jan 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Ministry of Transport will be lobbied to bring electrically boosted bicycles under the same regulations as motorcycles, according to the Bermuda Road Safety Council.
Dennis Lister III, chairman of the RSC, repeated calls for the increasingly pop...
DATE: Jan 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Campaigns
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Government called off 38 bus routes this afternoon.
The string of cancellations began with the No. 4 service from Hamilton to Spanish Point at 4pm, to the No. 1 bus from Grotto Bay to Hamilton at 6.40pm.
Cancellations doubled on January 13 with t...
DATE: Jan 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Government’s Budget deficit is expected to be an “unsustainable” $295 million for the current financial year after the Covid-19 pandemic slashed revenues and sent spending soaring.
As a result, Government is considering removing funding for “lower p...
DATE: Jan 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Hotel business recovery hinges on how the Covid-19 pandemic can be contained, the Bermuda Hotel Association has said.
Stephen Todd, the chief executive of the BHA, added that hoteliers were “optimistic that we will start to see a gradual increase in ...
DATE: Jan 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell