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Small adjustments and better co-ordination in the healthcare system could help save lives, the Bermuda Health Council said yesterday.
A BHeC spokesman said that the health service had excellent providers, sufficient equipment and adequate funding for...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An environmental charity has set out to raise more than $100,000 to remove scores of abandoned boats that litter the island’s waters.
Keep Bermuda Beautiful said it has launched fundraising efforts to tackle the problem of wrecked boats, which the ch...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda College will celebrate 24 new graduates at its second annual Winter Commencement tomorrow.
Duranda Greene, the college president, said half of the graduates had achieved GPAs above 3.0, which meant they would graduate with merit or distinctio...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A “systemic breakdown” in the healthcare system that allowed some people to slip through the cracks has to be tackled, activists said yesterday.
Friends of Milton Ming – a Bermudian chef who died days after he was flown overseas for treatment – s...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man convicted of a 2011 murder will have his case heard by the Privy Council in London next month.
Devon Hewey and Jay Dill were sentenced to life in prison in 2013 after they were found guilty by a unanimous verdict of the killing of footballer Ra...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Business leaders have backed quarantine policy changes for people who are close contacts of infected people.
Karl Massam, the head of the Chamber of Commerce’s restaurant division and general manager of the Yellowfin restaurant group, said yesterday ...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Police have arrested a 31-year-old man after a drone carrying drugs was intercepted by staff at Westgate prison.
A police spokesman said the police drugs unit and tactical support division were called in after the aerial drone “breached the perimeter...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A motorcyclist who was more than double the drink-driving limit when he caused the death of a father of four later told police he had never held a valid driving licence, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.
Ishmael Lightbourne, 41, also admitted to off...
DATE: Jan 16, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Police are to set up roadside breath test checkpoints across the island next weekend.
A notice in the Official Gazette said checkpoints would be in operation on January 21, 22 and 23 in seven of the island’s nine parishes, with only St George’s and ...
DATE: Jan 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A maths tutoring centre has teamed up with an asset management firm to launch a scholarship drive to send 500 youngsters to summer maths camps.
Equilibria Capital Management has agreed to fund 50 scholarships and it is hoped that the scholarship driv...
DATE: Jan 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes