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Bermuda’s foster parents – and people who supported them – were celebrated in the Senate yesterday.
Lindsay Simmons, the junior social development and seniors minister, praised the hard work and dedication of Bermuda’s foster parents in her maiden sp...
DATE: Dec 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Hundreds of seniors and disadvantaged families have benefited from bundles of Christmas groceries from the Salvation Army.
A senior member of the event’s coordination team said that more than 300 seniors visited the Botanical Gardens to collect holid...
DATE: Dec 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Police officers have caught ten people in breach of the 11pm curfew since Friday - with one offender stopped twice.
A police spokesman said today that curfew checks were carried out at several locations over the weekend to enforce the measures, intro...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A sailor on a British tanker was brought to Bermuda this morning after he suffered facial injuries.
The Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre said it received a satellite phone call from the tanker British Sponsor about the injured sailor shortly before...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A trio of filmmakers ventured far from home for their latest film production – to the snow-covered Scottish mountains.
Andrew Kirkpatrick, Nhuri Bashir and Jermaine Simons of Burnt House Productions all had roles behind the scenes in the production o...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man caught trying to sneak more than $67,000 out of Bermuda has lost a Supreme Court legal battle to get the cash back.
Puisne Judge Sade Subair Williams ruled that, on the balance of probabilities, the cash was the proceeds of crime – specifically...
DATE: Dec 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An island-wide blackout failed to slow business at the new airport, a spokeswoman said yesterday.
But bad winter weather off the US East Coast caused delays to some flights scheduled to leave the island.
The JetBlue flight was scheduled to leave for ...
DATE: Dec 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A power cut that hit the island yesterday was an “anomaly”, the president of Belco’s parent company insisted.
Wayne Caines said staff continued to investigate the cause of the outage, but a recurrence was not expected.
Most customers had power resto...
DATE: Dec 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
About three quarters of the island had power restored this afternoon as Belco crews worked to get electricity to all residents and businesses by the end of the day.
Dennis Pimentel, the company president, said that teams were “feverishly working" to ...
DATE: Dec 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The trial of a senior Government care worker charged with an assault a teenager in her care will return to Magistrates’ Court next year.
Kennette Robinson, 52, has denied charges that she punched and mistreated a 17-year-old girl in an incident at th...
DATE: Dec 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes