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Five Progressive Labour Party senators will swap the Upper Chamber for the House of Assembly after they won their seats in the General Election.
Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, Vance Campbell, Anthony Richardson, Crystal Caesar and Ianthia ...
DATE: Oct 02, 2020
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Sam Strangeways
Social justice and the health of Bermudians are two of the key priorities in Ianthia Simmons-Wade’s General Election campaign.
Ms Simmons-Wade, appointed a government senator last December, is running in Warwick North East against the One Bermuda All...
DATE: Sep 28, 2020
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Politics
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Sam Strangeways
The former head of a child protection charity turned political hopeful has appealed to voters to consider the number of candidates standing against the Progressive Labour Party in this week’s General Election.
Jon Brunson, who is to contest a Warwick...
DATE: Sep 28, 2020
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Politics
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Sam Strangeways
No new cases of Covid-19 were recorded today after almost 1,200 test results came back to health officials.
A Ministry of Health spokeswoman said 1,185 test results had been received and all were clear.
The total number of cases remained at 177, incl...
DATE: Sep 15, 2020
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Sam Strangeways
Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez has upheld a decision by the Bermuda Monetary Authority to withhold records about its staff recruitment plans.
But she has told the authority it must reveal whether such a record exists and whether it incl...
DATE: Sep 01, 2020
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Sam Strangeways
The Opposition has accused Cabinet ministers of misusing public funds to post political advertisements on social media before the General Election.
Trevor Moniz, the former Attorney-General who stepped down as an MP this month and is now acting chair...
DATE: Aug 28, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
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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Sam Strangeways
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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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
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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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways