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A Supreme Court murder trial ground to a halt this week after the coronavirus forced a juror to quarantine.
Taaj Muhammad, 26, pleaded not guilty to the December 30, 2018 murder of Ronniko Burchall, who was 30.
Mr Muhammad, from St George's, also ple...
DATE: Jan 14, 2022
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Another shipment of Covid-19 vaccines arrived on the island on Wednesday night, Government House has announced.
Government House confirmed in a Facebook post that 14,040 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived on last night’s British Airways fli...
DATE: Jan 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Police Service has felt the impact of the latest wave of Covid-19 with one in ten staff members off work because of the virus.
Darrin Simons, the Acting Commissioner of Police, said the BPS had risen its Covid threat level to green, indic...
DATE: Jan 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Firefighters said Bermuda was temporarily left without fire coverage yesterday after one fire station was closed and firefighters from the two remaining stations responded to a blaze.
Three fire trucks and eight firefighters quickly extinguished the ...
DATE: Jan 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The latest outbreak of Covid-19 has worsened staff shortages in the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service and caused slower emergency response times and temporary station closures.
A spokesman for the Bermuda Fire Service Association said that 35 firefight...
DATE: Jan 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Firefighters put out a blaze at a Hamilton Parish chicken coop this morning after receiving reports of a brush fire.
A spokesman for the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service said it received a call about the fire in the Crawl Hill area at 9.38am.
The spok...
DATE: Jan 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A yacht docking area in the East End will be improved if an application for renovation work is backed by planners.
A planning application said fencing would be put up on Ordnance Island and Market Wharf in St George to separate the dock from public a...
DATE: Jan 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A 58-year-old man has been arrested after a stabbing in St David’s.
A police spokeswoman said that shortly before 7.30pm on Sunday a 56-year-old man went to Southside Police Station to report that he had been stabbed near the scrapyard in the Southsi...
DATE: Jan 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Government failed to listen to the profession before the “massively botched” reopening of the island’s public schools, the Bermuda Union of Teachers said yesterday.
Nishanthi Bailey, the BUT president, said teachers had been “bullied” by the educ...
DATE: Jan 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A new agricultural produce storage centre to replace a century-old building has been proposed.
A planning application said that the proposed structure would be built next to the existing centre on Schools Drive, Devonshire, near CedarBridge Academy....
DATE: Jan 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes