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The Bermuda National Gallery has turned to the internet to continue its mission to bring art to the public over the Covid-19 lockdown.
A spokesman said the gallery would host a talk by Bryan Ritchie, the 2020 Bermuda biennial artist, through the Zoom...
DATE: Apr 15, 2020
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A plan by a private jet firm to sell six seats on a flight to the US has flown into trouble.
David Burt, the Premier, said that the trip organised by Longtail Aviation to bring passengers back to Bermuda from the US and return to America had not yet ...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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Bermuda’s high schools have joined forces to make face shields for hospital staff.
Saltus Grammar School, Warwick Academy, Somersfield Academy, Bermuda High School and CedarBridge Academy have used their schools’ 3D printers to manufacture protective...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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A man who breached the Covid-19 curfew while wearing an electronic monitoring device has been jailed for a month.
Lawrence Smith, 22, from Paget, pleaded guilty to three breaches of the Shelter in Place regulations.
Smith admitted unlawfully visiting...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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A man was fined after he was found by police in Warwick in breach of the island-wide lockdown.
Kalio Govia, from Pembroke, pleaded guilty to the offence in an online sitting of Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday.
Govia, 36, of Pembroke, was stopped on...
DATE: Apr 13, 2020
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Police are investigating a break-in at a Pembroke grocery store in the early hours of Saturday.
A police spokesman said that police received a call that an alarm at Arnold’s Supermarket on St John’s Road had been triggered just before 2.30am.
The spo...
DATE: Apr 13, 2020
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Care home staff will be banned from working at multiple sites under amendments planned by the Ministry of Health.
Health minister Kim Wilson announced the move yesterday to try to cut the risk of Covid-19.
She was speaking after The Royal Gazette rep...
DATE: Apr 12, 2020
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Health
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The number of Covid-19 cases hit the 50 mark yesterday.
Kim Wilson said that two more tests had come back positive.
She added 28 had recovered, eight were hospitalised and were still under public health monitoring, but did not need hospitalisation.
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DATE: Apr 12, 2020
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Closures of beaches and parks were not enough to keep kites out of the air as the island celebrated Good Friday.
While families were forced to avoid their usual gathering places because of restrictions imposed by the coronavirus outbreak, many chose ...
DATE: Apr 11, 2020
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Chronic diseases make Covid-19 even more dangerous in Bermuda, a doctor said yesterday.
Annabel Fountain, an endocrinologist at Fountain Health, explained that non-communicable diseases were dangerous on their own, but made sufferers more vulnerable ...
DATE: Apr 11, 2020
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