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A Royal Bermuda Regiment soldier who signed up for a stint of life on the ocean wave has just finished a major disaster relief exercise in the Caribbean.
Lieutenant Ci’re Bean, 23, was attached to the Royal Navy’s HMS Medway to help plan and carry o...
DATE: Sep 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A supermarket chain has extended its three discount days a week scheme until the end of the year, it said today.
The MarketPlace group earlier pledged to offer the five per cent discount on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays until September 30 to help ...
DATE: Sep 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A charity leader said her organisation was an “outlet” for women who faced challenges brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Tina Laws, the executive director of the Women’s Resource Centre, which is today launching a series of webinars, explained t...
DATE: Sep 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Insurance company Catalina Holdings has donated 30 filled school backpacks to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bermuda to support students in need.
Tina Rego, chairwoman of the company’s environmental, social and governance committee, said: “During a peri...
DATE: Sep 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A woman on a rental scooter was taken to hospital today after her machine was in collision with a truck.
A police spokeswoman said the injured woman was taken to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, but her injuries were not thought to be “life-thr...
DATE: Sep 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Police have appealed to the public to help find a 19-year-old man said to be a “person of interest”.
A police spokesman said Zywonde Lema is a light skinned, Black male, about 5ft 3in, of slim build, usually clean-shaven and with a high top fade hair...
DATE: Sep 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Police have warned the public over fake social media reports about thieves handing out face masks with “anaesthetic properties”.
A police spokesman said the message claimed people should beware of people who claimed to be “government workers” distrib...
DATE: Sep 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Staff shortages are expected to hit garbage collection over the next few weeks, the public works ministry warned last night.
A spokeswoman said residential waste collection would continue but it was “impossible to guarantee service every day under th...
DATE: Sep 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
It’s hard to imagine what life was like 100 years ago. Back in the 1920s, Bermuda really was a different world.
There were no cars or television sets, no telephones, no freshly imported good flying in from foreign shores, none of today’s modern luxu...
DATE: Sep 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The overworked team at the island’s main coronavirus testing lab got a break after a restaurant chain owner donated meals to staff.
Carika Weldon, the head of the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory and her staff were given trays of sushi and fresh vege...
DATE: Sep 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
