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St George’s residents will get to meet their parish constable at a community outreach meeting on Thursday night.
The gathering with parish officers will be held from 6pm to 7pm at the Open Door Christian Fellowship, 22 Tommy Fox Road.
A spokesman sai...
DATE: Mar 10, 2020
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A fire broke out in one of the cells at Westgate prison this morning.
The fire service got a call just after 10am, with four trucks and seven firefighters responding from the Port Royal and Hamilton stations.
Corrections officers extinguished the bla...
DATE: Mar 10, 2020
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A company with a loan scheme to cover solar energy installation has accused the island’s electricity and telecoms watchdog of blocking the innovation.
Greenlight Energy said its financing arrangement would allow people unable to afford the upfront co...
DATE: Mar 09, 2020
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Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, issued a statement this afternoon noting that the World Health Organisation announced over the weekend that the global number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 has surpassed 100,000.
The illness is caused by the coro...
DATE: Mar 09, 2020
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Bermuda will extra supplies of hand santitiser to help the fight against a new potential killer strain of coronavirus by next week, the Premier promised yesterday.
David Burt said: “We recognise this could be an existential threat to our tourism indu...
DATE: Mar 07, 2020
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Immigration legislation will be amended to solve the problems of mixed-status families and settle the status of children born overseas to Bermudian parents, the national security minister said yesterday.
Wayne Caines insisted there would be “no givea...
DATE: Mar 07, 2020
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Jonathan Bell
Immigration legislation to tackle the problems faced by mixed-status families is to be tabled in the House of Assembly today.
Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, will also make a ministerial statement on the subject.
The legislation was ...
DATE: Mar 06, 2020
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
Women who helped transform Bermuda are to be honoured with a tree-planting drive, part of several events in the run-up to International Women’s Day this weekend.
Women’s solidarity will be celebrated today on the steps of Hamilton City Hall from 12.1...
DATE: Mar 06, 2020
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A life’s work behind the scenes with the troubled and marginalised was recognised at a ceremony yesterday.
Pastor Leroy Bean, the island’s gang violence reduction co-ordinator, was presented with a community impact award by Trevor Lindsay of TNN News...
DATE: Mar 06, 2020
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An entertainer and activist at the centre of a racism row was yesterday dropped as a performer by the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club in the wake of online posts where he called the people in charge of immigration “cockroaches”.
Tony Brannon said he h...
DATE: Mar 05, 2020
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