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The Chief of Staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board said that the community was the “first line of defence” against Covid-19, as he urged citizens to help stop the spread of the disease.
Michael Richmond told The Royal Gazette that a supply of N95 resp...
DATE: Mar 30, 2020
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Sam Strangeways
Sophia Cannonier is used to not seeing her two eldest children while they are away at boarding school — but now she has no idea when she will next be reunited with them.
Ravi and Vidya Cannonier-Watson, who are both studying dance in Britain, were un...
DATE: Mar 30, 2020
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The Government could build or convert buildings to field hospitals to deal with the Covid-19 crisis if needed, the Ministry of Health has said.
A spokeswoman for the health ministry added: “Nothing is being ruled out.”
The spokeswoman said that the G...
DATE: Mar 27, 2020
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Health
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Sam Strangeways
A Bermudian family were quarantined in their Hong Kong home due to the coronavirus pandemic just weeks after they moved to the region.
Nijah Dyer, her husband, Shannon, and their children, Adrianna and Julius, moved to the city last December for Mr D...
DATE: Mar 19, 2020
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MPs clashed in the House of Assembly over the hiring of a defence lawyer to run the Government’s Legal Aid office.
Opposition backbencher Trevor Moniz questioned whether Charles Richardson — who he described as one of the island’s “leading and very g...
DATE: Mar 13, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Government has cut funding for a controversial programme which sends vulnerable Bermudian children to overseas institutions.
The Department of Child and Family Services will get almost $1.6 million to spend on its psychoeducational programme in t...
DATE: Mar 12, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Bermuda Government is to sell off 60 vehicles, including a BMW 750li luxury sedan.
Only two vehicles of that model are part of the government fleet — used by the Premier and the Governor as their official cars.
The Ministry of Public Works has in...
DATE: Mar 11, 2020
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Sam Strangeways
The Information Commissioner has upheld a decision by the police not to release records on the sale of foreign lottery tickets at a betting shop because there was “minimal” public interest.
Gitanjali Gutierrez said: “There is no evidence that the saf...
DATE: Feb 27, 2020
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Sam Strangeways
A 14-year-old girl in the care of the island’s child protection agency who went missing for the fourth time in less than two months has been traced, police said tonight.
Police appealed again yesterday for the public’s help to find the girl less than...
DATE: Jan 08, 2020
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The Bermuda Police Service failed to conduct a “reasonable search” for records they hold about the 2016 demonstration outside Parliament, which led to protesters being pepper-sprayed by officers, according to Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutier...
DATE: Nov 08, 2019
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