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Redundancy payments to ex-Fairmont Southampton workers will be honoured by the Government, the finance minister promised tonight.
Curtis Dickinson said the wait for their severance packages had had a “searing impact” on about 750 staff who were laid ...
DATE: Nov 10, 2020
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This year’s Throne Speech was “realistic” in laying out what could be accomplished in the coming legislative session, David Burt, the Premier said yesterday.
The Government’s digital bank, billed as the world’s first state-sponsored institution of i...
DATE: Nov 10, 2020
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The Remembrance Day observance will be a closed event, the public was reminded.
The grounds of the Cabinet Office will be closed on Wednesday from 9.30am, along with Front Street between Queen and King Streets; Parliament Street between Front and Re...
DATE: Nov 10, 2020
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An unstable rock face that threatened to collapse on a stretch of the Railway Trail has been shored up.
The section of trail at Bailey’s Bay, Hamilton Parish, had to be closed earlier this year for repairs.
It is now open for walkers along North Shor...
DATE: Nov 10, 2020
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The public was tonight “strongly urged” to send off their Christmas post to Britain by noon tomorrow.
The Bermuda Post Office said that border closures in the UK and a halt to flights out as part of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic would affec...
DATE: Nov 09, 2020
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Bermuda is poised to ask for more power to run its own affairs after the British government allowed the island to draw up “areas for constitutional reform”, the Throne Speech has revealed.
The speech, the blueprint for business for the new session o...
DATE: Nov 09, 2020
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An antiracism charity said today that a print version of its book on black history was now available.
Black History in Bermuda: Timeline Spanning Five Centuries was created by Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, with the support of the Human Ri...
DATE: Nov 08, 2020
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Jonathan Bell
Ernest Peets is to be a senator and the Government Leader in the Upper House, it was revealed tonight.
David Burt, the Premier, said he was “extremely pleased that Dr Peets has accepted this appointment”.
Dr Peets is a certified family therapist, an...
DATE: Nov 05, 2020
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Jonathan Bell
All the passengers on a British Airways flight from London last week were yesterday ordered to quarantine after eight coronavirus cases were detected among its passengers.
The latest case, a returned resident who flew to the island on October 27, was...
DATE: Nov 05, 2020
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Rolfe Commissiong, the former Progressive Labour Party MP who went public this week over his rift with David Burt, the Premier, insisted last night that there was support for his cause within the party.
Mr Commissiong spoke out this week over the pub...
DATE: Nov 05, 2020
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Jonathan Bell