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Four Uighur refugees have been granted citizenship nine years after a secret deal with the United States to give them asylum on the island.
The move was welcomed by Ewart Brown, the former premier, who arranged their transfer to Bermuda.
The home aff...
DATE: Aug 28, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Classes offered by the Community Education Development Programme are to be shelved at the end of this month, according to Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education and Workforce Development.
The move came after Mr Rabain informed the House of Assembly...
DATE: Aug 27, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s new Commissioner of Police has “ambitious plans” for a transparent, trusted and responsive service that will give the community a say in how policing is delivered.
Stephen Corbishley will also leverage his relationship with the National Cri...
DATE: Aug 27, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A charity has been swamped by its biggest demand for school uniforms as needy families prepare for the start of the school year
Gina Spence, a community activist who has run her back-to-school programme for 16 years, said this year’s drive was under...
DATE: Aug 25, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A new option for diabetes sufferers to have a pancreas transplant in the US has been promoted in Bermuda.
Jay Graham, an assistant professor and abdominal transplant surgeon at Montefiore Medical Centre in New York, said he was “very excited” about t...
DATE: Aug 25, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man caught on camera stealing a wallet from a restaurant table yesterday handed himself in to police after footage of the incident was posted on social media.
The short clip is from a mobile phone taken from security cameras at Speciality Inn on So...
DATE: Aug 24, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police have made six arrests in the past 24 hours in connection with a spate of street robberies, it was revealed yesterday.
Commissioner of Police Stephen Corbishley said stolen property, as well as a stolen bike, had also been recovered.
The news c...
DATE: Aug 23, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Marion De Jean, a teacher and activist, “helped make Bermuda a better place”, community activist Glenn Fubler said yesterday.
Mr Fubler, of community group Imagine Bermuda, said Ms deJean, who died last month at the age of 95, was, along with her lat...
DATE: Aug 22, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A medical emergency on cruise ship Celebrity Summit resulted in a 13-year-old boy being brought ashore for treatment early yesterday.
The passenger is believed to have suffered a brain embolism, the Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre said.
The centre...
DATE: Aug 22, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
President Donald Trump’s former lawyer launched a phone attack on a Bermudian-born journalist, it has been revealed.
News of the verbal outburst against Clare O’Connor came on the same day that Michael Cohen made a plea bargain in the United States D...
DATE: Aug 22, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell