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A man who said he visited a house to buy alcohol despite the Covid-19 lockdown was fined $3,000 yesterday.
Treadwell Smith, 33, from Devonshire, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to a breach of the shelter-in-place regulations by leaving his home ...
DATE: Apr 24, 2020
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man was remanded in custody today after he was charged with breaches of probation and the shelter in place regulations.
Junius Caines, 51, was alleged in Magistrates’ Court to have broken his probation order by taking illegal drugs sometime between...
DATE: Apr 24, 2020
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Court
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The public have been urged to “make some noise” today to honour those on Bermuda’s front line.
A spokesman for the Fairmont Southampton said the hotel called on people to honk car horns, make music or clap for essential workers at 5pm today for five ...
DATE: Apr 24, 2020
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
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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Owain Johnston-Barnes
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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Owain Johnston-Barnes
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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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
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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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
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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Owain Johnston-Barnes
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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Owain Johnston-Barnes
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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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes