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Separated parents who share custody of their children will be able to move them between their homes after an amendment to state-of-emergency rules.
Changes to the shelter-in- place order included a provision to allow parents who do not live together ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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Efforts to safeguard families in emergency housing over the Covid-19 crisis are not good enough, a resident has claimed.
The woman, who lives in the Gulfstream housing complex in St David’s, said there was a cleaning service at the building — but tha...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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A hurricane hindered efforts to return a native species of fern to Bermuda’s wild areas.
Efforts to reintroduce the Governor Laffan’s Fern, considered extinct in the wild, to various sites around the island had mixed results last year, after the isla...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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Environment
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An environmental group celebrated Earth Day yesterday with a tree-planting programme.
The Bermuda Climate Action Network said the reduction of travel and closure of factories in the fight against Covid-19 had resulted in an “environmental boon” with ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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An outdoor activity centre for the disabled has been forced to lay off most of its staff because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
WindReach, which has eight full-time employees, said it would operate with 2½ full-time equivalents from May 1 until it could r...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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Covid-19 has caused massive unemployment among taxi drivers and the restaurant trade, industry figures said yesterday.
David Frost, the president of the Bermuda Taxi Owners Association, said almost 600 taxi drivers were off the road because of the pa...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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Advanced Placement exams will go ahead in an abridged, online form, despite the cancellation of other international exams.
Jon Beard, the Deputy Head of School at Saltus, said today the AP exams organised by the US College Board and undertaken by stu...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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Education
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The second annual Bermuda Championship will embrace a new policy to reduce waste when it returns this October.
Organisers of the international golf event announced today, in recognition of Earth Day, that it would adopt the PGA Tour’s reusable cup po...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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Environment
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Some businesses thought to be eligible to reopen yesterday after Covid-19 regulations were relaxed were unable to do so because they still had to get government permission.
A spokeswoman for Hendy’s Laundromat on Union Street, Pembroke, said staff ha...
DATE: Apr 21, 2020
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The worldwide Covid-19 lockdown has not deterred bluebirds from their Bermuda nesting season.
Christian Chin-Gurret, a Bermudian student and founder of the Happy Bird Company bluebird box makers, said the eastern bluebird season had already started.
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DATE: Apr 21, 2020
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