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Fees for disposing of horticultural waste will be waived this week in the wake of Hurricane Fiona, the Ministry of Public Works said.
The waiver remains in place until noon on Saturday, with the regular fees returning from 7.30am next Monday.
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DATE: Sep 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police vehicles are on their last legs, suffering repeated breakdowns and staying in service long after they should be decommissioned, it has been claimed
DATE: Sep 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Taxi drivers threatened to break the law and deliberately overcharge customers in their effort to win a major fare hike, the transport minister has claimed
DATE: Sep 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
A 23-year-old woman who denied possessing a magazine and ammunition on August 29 had her case tried in Magistrates’ Court
DATE: Sep 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Stefano Ausenda
A 73ft motor yacht landed up on the rocks at Ports Island as a result of Hurricane Fiona.
The charter boat, named Cortina, is still at the Warwick location facing in a southeasterly direction.
The duty officer at the Maritime Operations Centre said ...
DATE: Sep 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Bermuda’s environmental watchdog is to call on the Minister of Home Affairs to reconsider the decision to defund the Government’s air quality monitoring programme.
The Environmental Authority raised the matter at a recent meeting where Belco air-qua...
DATE: Sep 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
“Unfortunate and disappointing” is how one local scientist with expertise in pollutants described the defunding of the Government’s air-monitoring programme.
The scientist, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that without monitoring “you are no...
DATE: Sep 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
An historic St George’s building is expected to return to life next year as the home of a new brewery and tap room.
Robert Pantry, co-founder and head brewer for Moongate Brewing Co Ltd, said the company hoped to open its new home in the Queen’s Ware...
DATE: Sep 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Winds from Hurricane Fiona were believed to have brought a tropical bird to Bermuda and taken some longtails from waters around the islands to Canada.
A brown noddy — more commonly found further south — was seen in Paget on Friday.
Three of Bermuda’s...
DATE: Sep 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket created a spectacle for Bermuda after its launch from Cape Canaveral on Saturday night.
The spacecraft company said on its website: “On Saturday, September 24 at 7.32pm ET, SpaceX launched 52 Starlink satellites to low-Earth ...
DATE: Sep 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
