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Businesses and residents were today asked not to leave wheelie bins on sidewalks outside regular trash collection times as high winds were predicted for later in the week.
A spokeswoman for the City of Hamilton made the request after forecasters war...
DATE: Jan 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A survey on drug use to “monitor the nature and magnitude of the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs” is to be carried out.
The Department for National Drug Control will run the telephone survey of 1,200 homes from next Monday.
Questio...
DATE: Jan 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A barrister has dismissed claims that banks negotiated mortgages in the knowledge that borrowers would default and allow the lender to seize properties at bargain prices.
Christopher Swan, a property lawyer, said that he had heard anecdotal accounts ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A group of firefighters have notched up a decade on the front line of public safety.
Sergeant Steven Caisey said: “A career in emergency services requires compassion and self-sacrifice.
“It can be extremely demanding, which is why we have to honour t...
DATE: Jan 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Grants worth more than $150,000 were given out to six community clubs and organisations, it was announced today.
Among the recipients were the Pembroke Hamilton Club, Jiketsu Martial Arts, PayAKid, the Western Stars Sports Club, St David’s Cricket Cl...
DATE: Jan 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A move by the safety campaigners to insist electric bicycles are licensed would make the island’s roads more dangerous, one of the island’s main dealers claimed yesterday.
Michael Paynter, the owner and operator of Pedego Bermuda in St George’s, said...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A woman claimed yesterday that her great-grandfather’s will was fraudulently signed by his nephews so that they could inherit his property.
Pattie Moore made the claim to the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses yesterday.
Ms Moore, from W...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A Front Street building could get a major redevelopment with more than a dozen apartments added.
The in-principle application, submitted earlier this month, proposed significant changes to the Frith Building at 57 Front Street and 24 Reid Street.
The...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo will reopen its doors next Monday after a month-long closure caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Flatts area attraction shut its doors on December 12 after an increase in coronavirus cases on the island.
A spokes...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary captain of a disaster relief ship that delivered life-saving hurricane aid to the Caribbean has died.
Rob Anders was 49.
Captain Anders, who skippered RFA Mounts Bay over a three-year deployment to the Caribbean, was appoin...
DATE: Jan 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell