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The Bermuda Road Safety Council has called on event organisers have a plan to ensure guests can return safely as the summer season ramps up.
A spokesman for the body said transportation plans that include pre-arranged minibuses, taxis or ferried have...
DATE: Jun 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Road works to advance the solar farm at LF Wade International Airport will impact traffic on Kindley Field Road from next week.
The Ministry of Public Works said that Saturn Solar Development, the developer behind the solar farm, will reopen an exist...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
New look ferry docks in Hamilton and Dockyard are on the cards.
The Ministry of Public Works has submitted a request for proposal for the refurbishment for the floating docks at three locations.
The RFP, published in the Official Gazette on Monday, s...
DATE: Jun 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
It’s not polluted, it is stable and it burns well – and it turns out that Bermuda beeswax could be the perfect fuel for satellites.
Scientists with MIT’s Space Enabled research group have been given a batch of the beeswax after being approached by th...
DATE: May 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The temporary loss of a pilot boat because of damage caused by a collision with a reef will not interrupt services, the Ministry of Transport said yesterday.
A spokeswoman admitted the damage to the St David, which struck a reef north of the island l...
DATE: May 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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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 20-year-old woman was in the intensive care unit today after a serious traffic collision in Smith’s yesterday afternoon.
A police spokesman said that at about 6.35pm yesterday officers responded to reports of a collision between a truck and a motor...
DATE: Apr 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Efforts to improve the East End’s water and waste water infrastructure continue to move forward.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works minister, has said the $5 million project would be a template for an island-wide water and waste water m...
DATE: Apr 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A total of $11 million has been committed to new buses – but the size of the fleet is to shrink from 88 vehicles to 70.
The news of the more than 20 per cent cut came as Lawrence Scott the transport minister, said the first of 30 electric buses, wort...
DATE: Mar 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes