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Middle-school students took to the seas this week on board the Bermuda Sloop Foundation’s training vessel, the Spirit of Bermuda.
A team of youngsters from Dellwood Middle School embarked on Monday on their four-day expedition in and around Bermuda.
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DATE: Oct 01, 2020
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Jonathan Bell
A top businessman and behind the scenes strategist when the former United Bermuda Party governed the island has died. Edgar Wilkinson was 90.
Mr Wilkinson was also a board member at the Bermuda Monetary Authority in the 1980s.
His businesses included...
DATE: Sep 30, 2020
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda must seek opportunity from the Covid-19 pandemic, the leader of the One Bermuda Alliance said last night.
Craig Cannonier added that the lockdown of Bermuda’s borders because of the coronavirus was a “major, major” challenge that will make pr...
DATE: Sep 29, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Private investment will drive many of the projects promised in the Progressive Labour Party’s platform for the October 1 General Election, the Premier said last night.
David Burt explained that the PLP had put together a collaborative document with i...
DATE: Sep 29, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda faces a “thunderstorm”, according to Marc Bean, the leader of the Free Democratic Movement, who called 2020 a “perilous time” needing steady leadership.
The new party came about when David Burt, the Premier, opted to “subject Bermuda to the e...
DATE: Sep 29, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Covid-19 has exposed the extent of poverty on the island, frontline workers have claimed.
Rachel Dill, the director of client services at the Coalition for the Protection of Children, said even two-parent families with full-time jobs had been forced ...
DATE: Sep 25, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Up to 75 uniformed services jobs are under threat from cutbacks, the One Bermuda Alliance claimed yesterday.
Ben Smith, the shadow national security minister in the last government, said personnel in the police, prison and fire services had predicted...
DATE: Sep 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A string of promises to boost the economy and cut the island’s cost of living were unveiled last night in the Progressive Labour Party’s election platform.
The manifesto included a Bermuda National Digital Bank to cut mortgage costs and jump-start th...
DATE: Sep 23, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda gained 523 jobs from 2018 to 2019, to a figure of 34,378 working last year.
The figures were among the 2020 employment briefs released on Tuesday by Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office.
The briefs showed job figures climbing, y...
DATE: Sep 10, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A drama teacher will be centre stage for the Bermuda Union of Teachers for the whole of the new school year.
The BUT executive said that Nishanthi Bailey, who teaches at Dellwood Middle School in Pembroke, had become full-time president of the union....
DATE: Sep 08, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell