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Industrial washing machines and dryers used by the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital have broken down, but patients have been unaffected, according to the Bermuda Hospitals Board.
A board spokeswoman said yesterday that only two of its four washers a...
DATE: Aug 27, 2020
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Venetta Symonds started full-time work for the Bermuda Hospitals Board 40 years ago today as one of the first black radiographers at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
Her ambition back then was not to become chief executive officer of the entire...
DATE: Jul 14, 2020
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Health
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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda’s acute care hospital is “well positioned” for a second wave of Covid-19, its outgoing chief executive has said.
Venetta Symonds, who will retire from the Bermuda Hospitals Board on July 31, added that the organisation’s 1,800 employees had p...
DATE: Jul 14, 2020
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Health
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Sam Strangeways
All five seniors’ homes hit by Covid-19 have been declared free of the virus, the Ministry of Health said today.
The Matilda Smith Williams Seniors Residence in Devonshire had the most cases, with 28 staff and patients affected.
Testing on everyone a...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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Health
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Sam Strangeways
A gay rights charity has voiced its support for a police officer who accused two colleagues of a serious sexual assault.
OutBermuda said in a press release that it backed the officer’s legal challenge of a decision by the Director of the Department o...
DATE: Jul 02, 2020
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Crime
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Sam Strangeways
A care home recovering from an outbreak of Covid-19 has a new executive director who is no stranger to a crisis.
April Augustus will take the helm at Westmeath Nursing and Residential Home on Monday, after a year-long stint as executive director at ...
DATE: Jun 10, 2020
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Sam Strangeways
David Burt has given himself responsibility for getting casinos up and running in Bermuda — and reiterated that only cashless gambling will be allowed in them.
The Premier announced as part of a Cabinet reshuffle yesterday that “consistent with my re...
DATE: Jun 05, 2020
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Politics
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Sam Strangeways
A divorced mother of two has appealed for better guidance from the Government on whether separated parents can meet during the coronavirus lockdown to hand over children.
The woman said she had not seen her two youngsters, aged 10 and 13, since April...
DATE: Apr 18, 2020
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Most women due to give birth in hospital will still be able to have their partners at their side when they are in labour despite the Covid-19 crisis, it was revealed yesterday.
The Bermuda Hospitals Board said last night that — as long as fathers or ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Two people out running in the early hours of this morning were charged with breach of the shelter in place rules, police said today.
The pair were spotted by a police patrol on Harrington Sound Road in Smith’s, near Knapton Hill, about 2.20am.
They w...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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