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Enough cash could be raised by Christmas to rebuild a playground destroyed by arson, a fundraising group said yesterday.
Pig’s Field Family Connections, set up after the attack on the Pembroke park in April, added that the new playground was the firs...
DATE: Oct 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The driving force behind a solar-powered aquaponics project addressing food security has been granted a national award led by an international environmental group.
Joseph Weeks, technical education instructor at the Bermuda College earned the Nation...
DATE: Oct 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A 72-year-old woman was hurt after being struck by a van that rolled from its parking space in Hamilton yesterday morning.
Police said the pedestrian was taken to hospital as “a precautionary measure”.
The incident happened near the junction of King ...
DATE: Oct 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Four pupils and one school staff member have tested positive for the coronavirus.
The results were received during the testing programme rolled out for the return of in-school learning.
As of Monday, students and staff from 12 schools had been teste...
DATE: Oct 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A charity filled three shipping containers with food and other aid for Haitians battling to survive after a massive earthquake.
Now Phillip Rego, who launched Feed My Lambs Ministry in 2009, is on his way to Haiti to organise the arrival of the cont...
DATE: Oct 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A hunt has been launched for a new head of the prison service.
The Commissioner of Corrections post was advertised three and a half years after Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Lamb, the last permanent commissioner, was seconded to the National Anti-Money ...
DATE: Oct 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A union representative has been branded “treasonous” by a teaching union.
Leonard Santucci, the Bermuda Union of Teachers representative at the Berkeley Institute, came under attack in a union internal memo after he highlighted claimed breaches of th...
DATE: Oct 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The island’s Ombudsman is to step down next March after eight years in the role.
Victoria Pearman said she was proud of the work the office had carried out during her tenure – particularly faced with the “extraordinary challenges for us all” caused b...
DATE: Oct 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
At least 11 public schools and preschools have reached the 80 per cent saliva screening consent threshold required by the government to reopen for in person learning.
And the Premier, David Burt, said that some schools could return to class as soon ...
DATE: Oct 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
An amendment designed to ban three and four-wheeled vehicles used for guided tours from national parks was backed by the Senate yesterday.
The move by Marcus Jones, an Opposition senator, came as the Upper House debated the Motor Car (Liveries) Act, ...
DATE: Oct 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan