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The island’s armed service mobilised yesterday to meet the threat posed by what is expected to be Hurricane Paulette.
More than 80 troops, including three Immediate Response Teams, have been called up from Sunday to bolster the response to the storm....
DATE: Sep 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda gained 523 jobs from 2018 to 2019, to a figure of 34,378 working last year.
The figures were among the 2020 employment briefs released on Tuesday by Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office.
The briefs showed job figures climbing, y...
DATE: Sep 10, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Progressive Labour Party’s traditional grip on the West End could be under threat at the General Election on October 1, according to a source within the PLP.
The freshly unveiled third party, the Free Democratic Movement, is led by former PLP lea...
DATE: Sep 10, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
It sprang as a new voice in Bermuda politics, including a group of six defectors from the United Bermuda Party.
In November 2009, the Bermuda Democratic Alliance promised jaded voters “a better way”.
In the end, it joined forces with UBP remnants as ...
DATE: Sep 10, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Bermudian woman is among a group accused of illegally voting in the United States 2016 presidential election.
The charges, announced by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, include Ismay Prudence Kathleen James, 54, of Bermuda, among 12 foreign ...
DATE: Sep 10, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The island’s first child case of Covid-19 was logged yesterday after a ten-year-old tested positive for the coronavirus.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the youngster was one of two positive cases of the illness out of 2,140 test results that h...
DATE: Sep 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A drama teacher will be centre stage for the Bermuda Union of Teachers for the whole of the new school year.
The BUT executive said that Nishanthi Bailey, who teaches at Dellwood Middle School in Pembroke, had become full-time president of the union....
DATE: Sep 08, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Thousands of Bermudians left jobless by the Covid-19 pandemic will be targeted in a series of back-to-work programmes, the labour minister has vowed.
Jason Hayward said a three-pronged strategy of unemployment reduction, prevention of future unemploy...
DATE: Sep 08, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
It was the one of the most ferocious storms in the history of the Atlantic hurricane season, and the deadliest natural disaster to strike the Bahamas.
This week marks one year since the onslaught of Hurricane Dorian on the north islands of the Caribb...
DATE: Sep 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A woman who notched up a century today had a fast answer when she was asked the secret to a long life.
Sylvia Spearing said: “Live every day. Try to be decent and helpful. That’s the only thing we’re put on earth for — to help each other.”
Ms Spearin...
DATE: Sep 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell