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A lifeline for seniors struggling with basic expenses against a backdrop of soaring inflation is now part of an appeal for the community’s help.
The charity Age Concern Bermuda, fighting to get ahead of Bermuda’s cost of living for its financing hard...
DATE: Nov 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s role in the two world wars will be the topic of a presentation today that veterans’ advocate Carol Everson said might ruffle some feathers.
Ms Everson, among those who fought a lengthy campaign to secure veterans’ benefits for soldiers who ...
DATE: Nov 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
No secret deal exists behind Bermuda’s draft marine conservation plans that have drawn the ire of fishermen, the Minister of Home Affairs insisted yesterday.
Walter Roban spoke after the Fishermen’s Association of Bermuda threw down the gauntlet on t...
DATE: Nov 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Angry fishermen have threatened the Government with legal action over a sweeping marine conservation strategy they said was hatched in secret.
The Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme, unveiled in August, proposes marine protection areas with 20 per ce...
DATE: Nov 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police have begun ticketing drivers over licence plate and vehicle tinting offences – instead of cautioning people not in compliance.
The warning came after police said this week they had given the public a grace period to get in line with regulation...
DATE: Nov 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Grievances over the building of a medical waste incinerator plant at Southside in St David’s are to be aired in a second public meeting tonight.
It follows a stormy public meeting at the start of the month on the building of the plant by MediWaste, a...
DATE: Nov 24, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Fines for motorists with illegal licence plates have increased 20-fold under new regulations passed by MPs.
But police said officers had begun by issuing warnings to drivers found breaking the new rules, rather than hitting them with the full penalty...
DATE: Nov 23, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
King Edward VII Memorial Hospital has denied that a man spent ten hours in the emergency department because of delays caused by its new electronic medical records system.
A Bermuda Hospitals Board spokeswoman said the Pearl, the new fully electronic...
DATE: Nov 23, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Steps to regulate the importation and use of pesticides were welcomed as “long overdue” by the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Task Force
The move, announced this month by Kim Wilson, the health minister, would consolidate oversight under one m...
DATE: Nov 23, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A seniors’ residence with ten apartments has been proposed for a site just outside Hamilton.
The planning application by the Bermuda Real Estate Investment Trust, run by physician Kyjuan Brown, was posted this month and shows designs which include a ...
DATE: Nov 23, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell