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Bermuda’s solar energy was the topic of a meeting this month between solar providers, the Department of Planning and Walter Roban, the home affairs minister.
Mr Roban met with representatives from the Department of Energy, BE Solar, Greenlight Solar,...
DATE: Feb 19, 2020
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The owner of a property on Peat Lane in Pembroke, where armed police attended on Sunday in the wake of a shooting on nearby Field View Lane, was found to have “no involvement in this matter”, according to Commissioner of Police Stephen Corbishley.
Mr...
DATE: Feb 19, 2020
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A “ghost ship” that sparked a warning to seafarers after it was abandoned 1,300 miles off the island has made an unexpected return.
The 250ft MV Alta became the centre of international attention after it ran aground last Saturday on the rocky shoreli...
DATE: Feb 18, 2020
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A review team to assess proposals for tackling chronic disease in Bermuda is being sought by the Bermuda Health Council.
The BHeC announced last year that $2 million was available to fund brainstorming on tackling Bermuda’s high costs of non-communic...
DATE: Feb 18, 2020
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Health
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Jonathan Bell
Police urged for the public’s help in locating a missing 14-year-old girl, Destiny Winters, along with a missing man, Roger Richardson, 56.
Ms Winters has been repeatedly declared missing from her government care facility.
She is described as a black...
DATE: Feb 17, 2020
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An “indiscriminate” gun attack was condemned yesterday after bullets were fired at an apartment, in the island’s fourth shooting into a residence in less than two weeks.
No injuries were reported, but area residents said a one-year-old boy was typic...
DATE: Feb 17, 2020
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Crime
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Jonathan Bell
David Burt has challenged the pressure group Patients 1st to reveal its identity and meet with him over its campaign against proposed changes to the health insurance system.
Speaking in the motion to adjourn in the House of Assembly on Friday, the Pr...
DATE: Feb 17, 2020
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
“Changes are coming”, potentially at the board level, for the island’s independent tourism overseer, Zane DeSilva warned the House of Assembly on Friday night.
The Bermuda Tourism Authority was blasted for its 2019 statistics showing record tourism n...
DATE: Feb 17, 2020
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell
Carlita O’Brien has been announced as the head of the Bermuda Government’s new Department of Employee and Organisational Development.
Ms O’Brien will formally take up the post of Chief Employee and Organisational Development Officer on March 9, accor...
DATE: Feb 17, 2020
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A Bill promoting Bermuda as a “landing hub for transatlantic submarine cables” carrying internet and telecommunications has won approval from both parties in the House of Assembly.
Walter Roban, the Deputy Premier, said on Friday that the “one-stop s...
DATE: Feb 16, 2020
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Politics
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Jonathan Bell