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A new community centre overlooking North Shore was welcomed yesterday as a place not only to celebrate Bermuda’s Azorean community, but to highlight the island’s many cultures.
The centre for the charity Casa Dos Açores da Bermuda Limited, at the eas...
DATE: Sep 26, 2020
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Jonathan Bell
The continuing fallout from the Covid-19 crisis has left one of the island’s top charities in need of help.
Managers of Meals on Wheels, which relies on an army of volunteers to cook and deliver food, said it urgently required 25 new people to step u...
DATE: Sep 26, 2020
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Covid-19 has exposed the extent of poverty on the island, frontline workers have claimed.
Rachel Dill, the director of client services at the Coalition for the Protection of Children, said even two-parent families with full-time jobs had been forced ...
DATE: Sep 25, 2020
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
The Progressive Labour Party was accused of “stunning hypocrisy” yesterday for its barrage of abuse of the airport terminal development.
The attack by Douglas DeCouto of the One Bermuda Alliance brought a sharp response from the PLP, which criticised...
DATE: Sep 25, 2020
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
Up to 75 uniformed services jobs are under threat from cutbacks, the One Bermuda Alliance claimed yesterday.
Ben Smith, the shadow national security minister in the last government, said personnel in the police, prison and fire services had predicted...
DATE: Sep 24, 2020
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
Hundreds of hotel workers face redundancy because of the closure of a leading Bermudian resort for almost two years.
The 18-month shuttering of the Fairmont Southampton hotel for renovations would mean about 750 layoffs, roughly 500 of them Bermudian...
DATE: Sep 24, 2020
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A string of promises to boost the economy and cut the island’s cost of living were unveiled last night in the Progressive Labour Party’s election platform.
The manifesto included a Bermuda National Digital Bank to cut mortgage costs and jump-start th...
DATE: Sep 23, 2020
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
A child who arrived last Wednesday from London has tested positive for Covid-19, it was announced last night.
The nine-year-old was said to be a resident who arrived on the British Airways flight.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the case had sh...
DATE: Sep 23, 2020
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A soldier who suffered serious injuries after he was hit by a car at a Covid-19 lockdown checkpoint returned home over the weekend to a hero’s welcome.
Private Ndavyah Williams exited the airport on Saturday to find soldiers from his A Company of the...
DATE: Sep 21, 2020
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Jonathan Bell
Progressive Labour Party candidates have pledged the party “will implement the living wage” to benefit the island’s young workers, if the PLP retains power after the October 1 General Election.
Jason Hayward, the labour minister, spotlighted the part...
DATE: Sep 19, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell