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Government had to pay Skyport almost $4 million last month after another quarter of low revenues at the airport, MPs heard today.
Lawrence Scott, the Minister of Transport, told the House of Assembly that revenues at LF Wade International Airport for...
DATE: May 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Planning applications have doubled year-on-year, according to the Deputy Premier.
Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, this morning told the House of Assembly, that the number of planning applications reflect the state of the economy with the ...
DATE: May 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Legislation to pave the way for casino gaming and a bill to halve the cost of liquor licences are expected to be debated by the House of Assembly today.
The two pieces of gaming legislation – tabled in March – were designed to lay more groundwork for...
DATE: May 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Department of Education will run a series of online town hall meetings next week to teach parents about the coronavirus saliva test programme.
Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, said the programme was designed to help control the spread of...
DATE: May 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Two people, one of them 81 years old, died after separate traffic collisions that happened minutes apart on Tuesday evening.
Leon Eugene Thomas, 81, known as Eugene, and Marvin Lambe, 56, were the third and fourth deaths on the roads this year.
A pol...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government is set to remove seven abandoned boats from Coot Pond in St George’s after no one stepped forward to claim them.
The Ministry of Transport published a notice in the Official Gazette on April 26 urging the owners of the seven boats “seeming...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A team of international researchers used satellite technology to map Bermuda’s undersea environment from space.
Nathan Thomas and Lola Fatoyinbo of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre merged together data from multiple sources in an effort to accurate...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
More meteorologists have warned the next hurricane season could be busier than average – although not predicted to match the record-breaking 2020 season.
The Weather Company and North Carolina State University have said that warm surface waters and h...
DATE: May 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Government could face legal action over a plan to force non-vaccinated arrivals to quarantine in special centres at their own expense.
Mark Pettingill, a lawyer and former Attorney-General, said that the proposal was “draconian” and that he had 1...
DATE: May 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A convicted sex offender was yesterday given court permission to apply for a judicial review of a deportation order.
Brittonie Taylor, who served eight years for a serious sex assault, appeared in the Supreme Court to fight an order to send him back ...
DATE: May 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes