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A Railway Trail footbridge across an inlet yesterday got a $10,000 boost as construction of the link neared completion.
The Garden Club of Bermuda pledged to donate plants to add greenery to both ends of the Flatts bridge, as well a benches as it han...
DATE: Dec 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The retail industry could see a permanent shift in its approach to Black Friday sales, the head of a store chain said yesterday.
George Grundmuller, the chief executive officer of The Phoenix Stores, said that the island could see bargains linked to ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Youngsters who have pledged to help reverse the effects of climate change yesterday met potential sponsors.
Hundreds of middle and high schoolchildren gathered at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute for the second last day of the Youth Clima...
DATE: Nov 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A disabilities charity is to hold a virtual conference next week on the best ways to campaign for rights for disabled people.
Common Ground, organised by WindReach, an outdoor activity centre for disabled people, was designed to break down stereotype...
DATE: Nov 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Campaigns
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Flooding will become a major problem for Bermuda as global warming increases, a risk analyst warned yesterday.
Angela A’Zary, the senior vice-president of client risk analytics at reinsurance firm RenaissanceRe, said that flood-prone areas such as M...
DATE: Nov 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A 14-year-old campaigner who brought a contaminated water crisis in a US city into the national spotlight yesterday told young Bermudians to make their voices heard.
Mari Copeny, who has campaigned for social justice since she was 8, said that yo...
DATE: Nov 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A former police officer will be sentenced next year after he admitted holding a food delivery driver hostage with a fake handgun.
Sam Fraser-Smith, 43, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court yesterday to depriving Romone Reid of his liberty.
The court ...
DATE: Nov 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
People eat about a credit card’s worth of plastic every week, it was revealed at a youth climate change summit yesterday.
The stomach-churning news was featured in a video presentation that showed that people ingested about five grams of microplastic...
DATE: Nov 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Climate change could destroy Bermuda’s reefs and marine life, a youth climate summit was told yesterday.
Mark Guishard, the Director of the Bermuda Weather Service, also said Bermuda had a larger carbon footprint on a per capita basis than China - o...
DATE: Nov 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The Botanical Gardens could be lost to future generations unless a proper management plan is introduced, a government landscape architect has warned.
Danny Simmons said that government staff could face a “wide range of issues” such as uncontrolled he...
DATE: Nov 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson