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A Bermudian firm hired to manage the construction of a major solar energy plant at the airport has been fired, a source said yesterday.
Noesis Consulting Limited were announced in May as the project managers for the six-megawatt solar farm on a 19 ac...
DATE: Oct 15, 2020
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News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Reality TV star and socialite Paris Hilton joined a protest held in a bid to shut down a controversial American boarding school for troubled children used by the Bermuda Government.
Ms Hilton, who spent almost a year at Provo Canyon School in Utah wh...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Simple acts of kindness can ease the stress of an unprecedented year, the health minister said yesterday.
Kim Wilson, speaking at an event to mark last Saturday’s end of Mental Health Awareness Week, appealed to the public to continue the event’s the...
DATE: Oct 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The appointment of a Cabinet minister under fire for making “a comment I shouldn’t have” has been blasted by the Opposition.
The decision to make Rolfe Commissiong the Government Senate Leader as well as the Minister of Community Affairs and Sport, w...
DATE: Oct 10, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Revival of the battered economy was front and centre as the Premier announced his new Cabinet and Senate teams yesterday.
David Burt dropped the community affairs and sport minister and the recently appointed transport minister from the front bench.
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DATE: Oct 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A court dispute between the Ministry of National Security and the Bermuda Prison Officers’ Association was dropped yesterday.
Both sides agreed in the Court of Appeal to withdraw the case and the Government also agreed to pay the prison officers’ cos...
DATE: Oct 08, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A string of new appointments have been announced by the Bermuda Public Services Union.
Edward Ball, the general secretary for 23 years, is to become a consultant and Kevin Grant, a former union president, who was made general secretary designate last...
DATE: Oct 07, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An insurance firm was accused yesterday of outsourcing jobs from Bermuda to Canada.
It was claimed Argus Group plans to shift between 15 and 20 jobs to One Team Health, a Toronto-based third-party overseas care administration firm it bought last year...
DATE: Oct 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Ministry of Education has announced the winners of this year’s government scholarships and awards.
The grants go to Bermudian students in higher education — with a new award, the Bermuda College Promise Programme, created last year for pupils who...
DATE: Oct 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A new kind of Progressive Labour Party voter helped return the party to the Government yesterday at the polls, a party strategist claimed last night.
Christopher Famous, returned as MP for Devonshire East, said voters who once favoured the One Bermud...
DATE: Oct 02, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell