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An environmentalist from the Isle of Man is set to speak in Bermuda next week about efforts to safeguard the territory’s environment.
Bill Dale, founder of Beach Buddies, will take to the stage at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute on June ...
DATE: Jun 17, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The friend of a teenager who died in a traffic collision maintained yesterday that she steered to avoid an oncoming van before she noticed that her friend was missing.
Jada Simmons-Trott said that while she would not have struck the van if she had no...
DATE: Jun 16, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Rules governing who can donate blood on the island could soon change as international standards shift.
While restrictions have been in place to block those who were in Britain during outbreaks of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, commonly known as m...
DATE: Jun 16, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A woman described yesterday how a night out turned to tragedy when her friend was killed in a road traffic collision four years ago.
Jada Simmons-Trott told the Supreme Court that she was travelling in front of 19-year-old Jen-Naya Simmons with Ms Si...
DATE: Jun 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Environmental groups have voiced reservations about recently passed legislation to allow three-wheeler tours amid concerns about their access to the island’s parks.
The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce and the Bermuda Audubon Society sa...
DATE: Jun 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A company has been applauded for answering the call for blood donations as it won the ninth annual corporate blood drive competition.
A Bermuda Hospitals Board spokeswoman said Butterfield and Vallis beat 14 other local businesses which took part in ...
DATE: Jun 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The upper veranda of the historic Commissioner’s House in Dockyard has been reopened to the public after six months of restoration work.
Work on the almost 200-year-old building — a part of the National Museum of Bermuda — was required to address rus...
DATE: Jun 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man is in hospital after he was stabbed in a fight in Hamilton early on Saturday morning.
A police spokesman said that at 2.50am, police responded to a report of a fight in the area of Court Street and Elliot Street involving “a number of persons”....
DATE: Jun 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A former Royal Gazette journalist was saluted by the Royal Bermuda Regiment for ten years of dedicated service.
Sergeant Raymond Hainey enlisted in the RBR in 2012 after previously serving with Britain’s Royal Naval Reserve from 1982 to 1984.
Lieuten...
DATE: Jun 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A ruling that a warehouse worker was unfairly dismissed two days after his probation period had ended has been overturned.
While the Employment Tribunal found last year that Gorham’s owed David Robinson almost $19,000 for wrongful termination after h...
DATE: Jun 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes