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The importance of Black History Month is to be highlighted as part of an essay-writing competition for schoolchildren organised by a law firm.
Conyers has asked middle and senior school pupils in from Grade 8 to 12 to submit essays on the significan...
DATE: Feb 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
More than $4m has been spent on the first of a fleet of electric buses, a public access to information announcement has revealed.
Costs associated with the 30 electric buses, parts and shipping amounted to $4.09m.
The notice in the Official Gazette a...
DATE: Feb 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A former union official has vowed to take legal action against the Bermuda Industrial Union if a decision to ditch him is ratified at a conference this week.
George Scott, who was the executive chief union organiser for the BIU, was handed a letter o...
DATE: Feb 07, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Face masks were hung on the doorknob to the Cabinet Office on Saturday as part of a protest against mandatory mask wearing in schools as part of the battle against Covid-19.
About 50 people gathered on the grounds, including around 20 children, after...
DATE: Feb 07, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The removal of most Covid-19 health restrictions – including the end of SafeKey rules in most cases – was yesterday welcomed by the Opposition One Bermuda Alliance.
Michael Dunkley, the shadow health minister, said: “We are pleased that it appears i...
DATE: Feb 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Covid-19 has claimed another life, health officials announced last night.
The latest fatality pushed the total since the pandemic hit almost two years ago to 118.
There are 18 people in hospital, three of them in intensive care, and 453 infected peo...
DATE: Feb 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Bermuda is becoming more vulnerable to storms and its fish stocks are under threat from climate change and rising sea levels, a report has warned.
The report said that Bermuda’s waters had become “warmer, saltier, more acidic and less oxygenated...
DATE: Feb 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Bermuda College has fallen victim to a suspected cyber attack, it was revealed yesterday.
But the Paget college said that initial indications suggested that students’ personal information has not been compromised.
A spokeswoman added: “Bermuda Colle...
DATE: Feb 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Saltus Grammar School has been accused of asking middle school pupils to prepare an assignment that discussed “the better parts of slavery”
DATE: Feb 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Education officials are prepared to meet a pressure group opposed to mandatory mask wearing and other Covid-19 precautions in schools, the organisation said yesterday.
A spokeswoman for Us For Them Bermuda said that Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Edu...
DATE: Feb 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan