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Issa Rae, the star of HBO comedy hit Insecure, has sung Bermuda’s praises on social media after she flew to the island on Wednesday.
She posted videos of the trip on Instagram yesterday, along with Bermuda’s Shiona Turini, the stylist and costume des...
DATE: Sep 04, 2020
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Jonathan Bell
The Labour Day march by the Bermuda Industrial Union will go ahead despite the pandemic, it was revealed yesterday.
But strict social-distancing will be enforced for the traditional event on Monday.
The times for the march have also been changed beca...
DATE: Sep 04, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Several capital projects, from renewable energy to infrastructure, can go ahead thanks to the Government’s raising of $1.35 billion in bonds, Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, said yesterday.
A host of capital projects in the 2020-21 Budget unv...
DATE: Sep 03, 2020
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s coronavirus test regime ranks top in the Americas and seventh worldwide per head of population, it was revealed last night.
Kim Wilson, the health minister said the island had carried out nearly 46,000 tests during the pandemic.
She was spe...
DATE: Sep 02, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A police officer is to be charged with posting an offensive message on social media, it was revealed yesterday.
A police spokesman said the Department of Public Prosecutions had approved a charge of “sending a grossly offensive message via a public e...
DATE: Sep 01, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Bermudian-born woman who missed her chance to get status by weeks was overjoyed yesterday to get a second chance after a government policy change.
The 31-year-old said: “I think I’m still dreaming.”
The woman, who asked not to be named, was speakin...
DATE: Sep 01, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A single mother chasing her dream career in medicine has been elated to be among the winners of the Dr Barbara Ball Public Health Scholarships this year.
Elinor Lucas Quarterly said her study of diabetes, a serious metabolic illness, was about more t...
DATE: Aug 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Controversy over absentee ballots for voters overseas flared up again this week after the One Bermuda Alliance criticised the Progressive Labour Party for a failure to fast-track the electoral change.
But the PLP highlighted other reforms it had intr...
DATE: Aug 28, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A milestone will be marked on October 1 when voters with sight problems get their first chance to cast their ballots on their own in a General Election, a charity said yesterday.
Vision Bermuda, formerly the Bermuda Society for the Blind, announced t...
DATE: Aug 28, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
There was “no question about a safe exercise of democracy” at the General Election, the Premier insisted last night.
David Burt said he had met John Rankin, the Governor, to assure him the Parliamentary Registrar, Tenia Woolridge, would be supplied w...
DATE: Aug 28, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell