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Hurricane Chris posed no threat to Bermuda by early evening yesterday.
The storm’s closest point to the island had passed before an update by the Bermuda Weather Service at 6pm.
The storm was 383 miles north of the island with winds around 92mph and ...
DATE: Jul 12, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s medical expertise has been boosted, courtesy of nine scholarships.
This year’s grants came from the Bermuda Hospitals Board with funding from the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust, with a GlaxoSmithKline scholarship that BHB administers.
T...
DATE: Jul 12, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Deputy Governor Ginny Ferson yesterday backed same-sex marriage in Bermuda “before too long”.
Ms Ferson added that the island’s showdown on the issue helped her see perspectives she disagreed with.
She admitted that the subject of same-sex marriage c...
DATE: Jul 11, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Cup Match is coming — and the Family Centre’s fundraising campaign with the title sponsor, Clarien Bank, is once again offering commemorative ribbons for a worthy cause.
The traditional ribbons in St George’s and Somerset colours are available all th...
DATE: Jul 11, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Education is the key to democracy and economic development, the former head of the global teachers’ body Education International has said.
Fred Van Leeuwen, the group’s past general secretary, added education was “an individual and collective right”....
DATE: Jul 11, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The island’s top dairy business said it was watching developments over a closure-threatened farm that provides around a quarter of Bermuda’s milk.
Stephen Dunkley, the general manager of Dunkley’s Dairy, said he was “in a holding pattern” over the po...
DATE: Jul 10, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Tynes Bay will have longer hours for public trash drop-offs from Monday.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, said the number of people using the drop-off service had increased. He added that the plant manager had agreed to e...
DATE: Jul 10, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Regulations for initial coin offering, a key piece of the island’s cryptocurrency legislation, were officially gazetted today, national security minister Wayne Caines announced.
It came as Mr Caines warned that early talk of potential offerings would...
DATE: Jul 10, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Farmers Association urged the Government yesterday to ditch its plan to remove West End farmers from their land amid concerns over the island’s dwindling farming industry.
The association claimed less than 400 acres is now being farmed ac...
DATE: Jul 09, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Health insurance premiums have spiked as much as 18.5 per cent, health minister Kim Wilson told MPs yesterday.
In some cases this will mean residents having to pay an additional $100 a month, which Ms Wilson said “can’t be easy for most working famil...
DATE: Jul 07, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell