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A musician who played in the same band as disgraced activist and entertainer Tony Brannon said last night that the pair would no longer perform together after Mr Brannon’s “unacceptable comments”.
Felix Tod, a DJ and keyboardist, was speaking in the ...
DATE: Mar 11, 2020
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Swimmers hit the water at the weekend to raise cash for research into multiple sclerosis.
Fundraisers for the The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Bermuda’s Swimathon gathered at the National Sports Centre in Devonshire to mark the start of a month dedi...
DATE: Mar 11, 2020
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A pond filled in almost eight decades ago is to be reborn as a nature reserve.
Excavators have moved in to the site of Eve’s Pond, at Shelly Bay in Hamilton Parish, as a first step towards the recreation of the pond and a three-and-a-half acre reserv...
DATE: Mar 10, 2020
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Environment
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Jonathan Bell
The Premier has denied that the Government wanted to clip the wings of the island’s tourism authority.
He was speaking after Kevin Dallas, the Bermuda Tourism Authority chief, stood down last month just after Zane DeSilva, the tourism minister, warne...
DATE: Mar 10, 2020
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Tourism
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Jonathan Bell
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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Health
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Jonathan Bell
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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Jonathan Bell
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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Politics
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Jonathan Bell