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HSBC Bermuda has backed an initiative by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences to prepare a new report on the impact of climate change in Bermuda.
The project, led by Mark Guishard, an adjunct faculty at BIOS and the director of the Bermuda Wea...
DATE: May 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A surge of passport applications and delays overseas means that Bermudian applicants face a longer wait, the Government said yesterday.
A spokesman for the Department of Immigration said that the UK Government had confirmed that those who are attempt...
DATE: May 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Residents of a Smith’s neighbourhood have called for “industrialisation” of the area to be halted pending a traffic study.
Almost 60 residents of Lolly’s Well Road, Hamilton Sound Road and Manor House Condominiums have signed a petition against a pla...
DATE: May 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Supreme Court has rejected a bid to seize $400,000 from the wife of a man convicted of money laundering in Ecuador.
The court heard that the money was transferred into a SunLife account owned by Esmeralda Patino in 2015.
While Ms Patino said the ...
DATE: Apr 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Researchers are on the lookout for a disease that could be a threat to Bermuda’s coral population — although no cases have been spotted locally.
Robbie Smith, curator for the Natural History Museum at the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo, said stony c...
DATE: Apr 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A group of financial assistance recipients have completed a pilot financial literacy programme launched by the Ministry of Economy and Labour.
A spokesman said the first 13 participants completed the course on April 6 after attending presentations on...
DATE: Apr 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
George Jones has been re-elected president of the Bermuda Bar Association at the group’s annual meeting.
Mr Jones, who was first elected to the Bar Council in 2015, is a managing partner of Ocorian Law (Bermuda) Limited.
A spokesman for the associati...
DATE: Apr 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A group of soldiers hand-picked to guard Royal sites in London said yesterday that their ten-week stint was the experience of a lifetime.
Corporal Orville Hall, one of six Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers attached to the Royal Gibraltar Regiment for c...
DATE: Apr 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A St George’s man was yesterday sentenced to spend at least 35 years behind bars for the 2018 fatal shooting of Ronniko Burchall.
Taaj Muhammad was given a life sentence for what prosecutors branded a “public execution” and ordered to serve at least ...
DATE: Apr 24, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An environmental coalition yesterday announced what they intend to become their fourth nature reserve — Alton Hill in Southampton.
Buy Back Bermuda, a collaboration between the Bermuda National Trust and the Bermuda Audubon Society, made the announce...
DATE: Apr 23, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes