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Join The Royal Gazette’s media partner The Washington Post at 12.30pm today for a discussion on renewable energy with Gina McCarthy, the White House national climate advisor.
With climate change posing an existential threat to Bermuda and other count...
DATE: May 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
An insurance firm is to give away health goodie bags to people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19.
CG Insurance said the move was designed to thank people who had got the jabs.
Beth Frazier, CG’s chief operating officer for health, said: “This...
DATE: May 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Septic waste disposal at a Government composting centre next month could cause foul smells, it was warned today.
The public works ministry said that the operation at Marsh Folly in Pembroke, carried out twice a year, would start on June 7.
A spokeswo...
DATE: May 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
After the eighth - and final - attempt, Nasa last night launched its KiNET-X mission when a Black Brant XII rocket blasted off from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility, in Virginia.
It meant that people were able to see a green vapour cloud over Ber...
DATE: May 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Electricity bills should drop after the Regulatory Authority yesterday reduced the retail rate for customers of the Bermuda Electric Light Company.
The move, which was welcomed by Walter Roban, the home affairs minister, is the second year retail ra...
DATE: May 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A florist has donated 300 roses to nurses at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
“We felt there was no one more deserving than nurses on the frontline of treating patients in Bermuda, to get a rose thanking them for their service,” said Demco owner Ca...
DATE: May 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Butterfield Banking centres in Hamilton, Somerset, and St George's will all remain open, but with the same reduced hours of 9am to 1pm after Covid restrictions are relaxed on Sunday, the bank said today.
A spokeswoman said: “With the recent announcem...
DATE: May 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Work on the public access to Elbow Beach in Paget will get underway on May 17 as part of Government’s economic stimulus project.
David Burch, the public works minister, said the Elbow Beach project had been awarded to Smith Hauling & Excavating and ...
DATE: May 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The head of the Bermuda Police Service’s internal discipline unit is returning to the UK, a police spokesman said today.
Superintendent Gillian Murray was seconded to Bermuda from the British Transport Police on a 12 month contract in October 2019. ...
DATE: May 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The weekly Covid-19 press conference scheduled for 5.30pm today has been postponed until Thursday.
A government spokeswoman said the postponement would enable David Burt, the Premier, and Kim Wilson, the health minister, time to give an update on “r...
DATE: May 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff