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Many black people will be frozen out of legal cannabis use because they will be unable to afford an annual $750 licence fee for personal cultivation, campaigners warned yesterday.
Social Justice Bermuda said the fee could keep the illegal cannabis ma...
DATE: Aug 18, 2020
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Sandcastle sculptors will be asked to reflect the unprecedented events of this year in the annual Bermuda Sandcastle Competition.
Hannah Emmerson, the organiser of the event, said it would be the first time in 25 years that the competition would have...
DATE: Aug 17, 2020
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A scholarship in memory of a dedicated sponsor of Bermudian education has helped open doors for four promising students.
William “Liam” Peniston III, Nathan Titterton, Ryan Topple and Kayah Wilks are the winners of the 2020-21 Nicholl Scholarships, a...
DATE: Aug 17, 2020
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Jonathan Bell
Laptops will be bought for 1,600 primary-school pupils after a donation from a German foundation.
The Hasso Plattner Foundation made the contribution after it emerged some children did not have access to devices for remote learning during the Covid-1...
DATE: Aug 17, 2020
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A New York technology firm is poised to move its top management to the island on the basis of “aggressive selling” online of Bermuda’s success in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, David Burt revealed last night.
The Premier said Bermuda had wo...
DATE: Aug 14, 2020
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Earlier this week the Ministry of Labour advised the public that due to a ban on business travel for Canadian public servants, the Canadian Consulate is unable to facilitate the Biometric Identification Process for Canadian Visa Applicants in Bermuda...
DATE: Aug 13, 2020
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Bus service will be halted today between 10am and 1.30pm.
The Department of Public Transportation said the interruption would allow talks with drivers in expectation of schools reopening next month.
A spokesman said: “The temporary service interrupti...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020
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Sarah Lagan
“The next generation of leaders, managers and entrepreneurs” were presented with scholarship awards by the Department of Workforce Development yesterday.
Jason Hayward, the Minister of Labour, presented the awards to ten recipients at a ceremony at C...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020
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Cecil G. Smith, a lifelong musician whose name became synonymous with the organ at St Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, has died at 85.
On Sunday he was given a send-off by the congregation of the Hamilton church, where he had also led the cho...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020
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Jonathan Bell
Bank of Bermuda Foundation (Foundation) continues to recognise the important work of our third sector and endorses the vital establishment of the Bermuda Nonprofit Stabilisation Fund (Fund), which is designed to ensure that the valued work of the non...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020
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