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An apprenticeship programme where businesses take on Bermudians full-time for work experience and training has been boosted by the Government.
There are now 95 apprentices with 20 firms under the earn-and-learn on-the-job training programme, run by t...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020
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Roland Hill, the importer who pulled off the island’s first shipment of bananas seen since January, got to look at the fruits of his labours today.
Mr Hill, of J & J Produce, joined Walter Roban, the home affairs minister, with staff at the Departmen...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020
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A pharmacy student who hopes to join the island’s battle against chronic illness has been given a $10,000 boost.
Ashley Davies is the winner this year of the Phoenix Stores’ Dr Kathy-Ann Louise White Pharmacy Scholarship, named after the first Bermud...
DATE: Aug 11, 2020
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The biometric identification required for Canadian visa applicants in Bermuda is not available locally because of a travel ban on Canadian public servants caused by the pandemic.
The service, which is mandatory for foreign students, had formerly been...
DATE: Aug 11, 2020
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Education
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Rare Victorian terraces outside Dockyard could be struck from the historic buildings register in two weeks’ time to allow owner West End Development Corporation to tear them down.
The notice to delist Albert Row as buildings of special architectural ...
DATE: Aug 11, 2020
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A single case of Covid-19 was logged out of 1,211 test results for the illness that came back between Sunday and yesterday.
The Ministry of Health said the case came in on the Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta last Monday.
The returned resident had...
DATE: Aug 11, 2020
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Health
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda is “one of the safest destinations on the planet” in the Covid-19 pandemic, the new United States Consul General said yesterday.
Lee Rizzuto, who took up the post last month, said the island’s test regime for the novel coronavirus was “effect...
DATE: Aug 10, 2020
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Health
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Jonathan Bell
The head of the firefighters’ union said yesterday that ageing equipment and a lack of staff had helped spark a rejection of government cost-cutting proposals forced by the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Nakia Pearson, the president of the...
DATE: Aug 10, 2020
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A clampdown on unscrupulous employers who fail to foot the bill for overseas workers who returned home was signalled by the labour minister at the weekend.
Jason Hayward reminded company owners that they were obliged to pay for tickets home for peopl...
DATE: Aug 10, 2020
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A 60-year-old man was found with “multiple” stab wounds on a Hamilton street yesterday.
The injured man was found on Union Street at about 10am.
A police spokesman said the man was taken to hospital by car for treatment, but that his injuries were n...
DATE: Aug 10, 2020
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Crime
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Jonathan Bell