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Grim figures on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic were revealed last night by the Minister of Finance.
Curtis Dickinson said the island’s total debt had gone up by about $520 million as a result of the double whammy of a plunge in revenues and pand...
DATE: Aug 21, 2020
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The company that operates Hamilton docks has been “severely impacted” as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was revealed yesterday.
Warren Jones, the chief executive of Stevedoring Services Limited, said that job numbers on the docks were expected...
DATE: Aug 20, 2020
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Bermuda’s final day in court to settle same-sex marriage has been set for early in 2021.
Rod Attride-Stirling, who represents the gay rights organisation OutBermuda along with four other litigants on the issue, said last night the case would go befor...
DATE: Aug 20, 2020
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The Opposition has asked the Government to clarify its stance on a cost-cutting package for the public sector after its proposals were turned down by the fire and prison services.
Ben Smith, the Shadow Minister of National Security, said on Tuesday h...
DATE: Aug 20, 2020
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Contact tracing was under way last night for four new cases of Covid-19, the health ministry said.
Three cases are known to have come in from overseas and the source of the fourth is under investigation.
All four are in isolation.
A ministry spokeswo...
DATE: Aug 19, 2020
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Health
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Jonathan Bell
Three positive cases of Covid-19 were imported on the JetBlue flight from New York on Friday, the Ministry of Health reported over the weekend.
All were residents who did not have pre-departure tests, and contact tracing began on Saturday to isolate ...
DATE: Aug 17, 2020
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Health
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Jonathan Bell
Growing up with a destructively alcoholic parent is fodder for humour as well as shock in Kirkland Hamill’s Bermudian-American memoir.
But Mr Hamill’s deeper message, to be shared on Wednesday in a live webinar about his just-published book, is: you’...
DATE: Aug 17, 2020
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An ice cream salesman pleaded for compensation from Belco after $10,000 of his stock melted during an electricity blackout in the West End.
Peter Jovetic, of Alex and Pete’s Bermuda Ice Cream Shop in Dockyard, lost dozens of gallons of ice cream that...
DATE: Aug 17, 2020
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Mandatory terms in the island’s residential building code have driven up expense “without tangible benefit”, an electrical industry group has charged.
The group has planned a town hall meeting for today at 6.30pm at Francis Patton School in Hamilton ...
DATE: Aug 17, 2020
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A scholarship in memory of a dedicated sponsor of Bermudian education has helped open doors for four promising students.
William “Liam” Peniston III, Nathan Titterton, Ryan Topple and Kayah Wilks are the winners of the 2020-21 Nicholl Scholarships, a...
DATE: Aug 17, 2020
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Education
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Jonathan Bell