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The driver of a speeding car that almost hit police officers on checkpoint duty is being hunted using roadside CCTV footage because it was too dangerous to chase the vehicle, it was revealed yesterday.
Chief Inspector Robert Cardwell, the head of the...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Small adjustments and better co-ordination in the healthcare system could help save lives, the Bermuda Health Council said yesterday.
A BHeC spokesman said that the health service had excellent providers, sufficient equipment and adequate funding for...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda was in the spotlight over the weekend in a US TV segment that featured an island scientist and a centuries-old sea mystery.
The island’s position on the edge of the Sargasso Sea brought a CBS crew to the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences to...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda could have two casinos up and running by the end of the year, it has emerged.
Jean Major, the gambling watchdog, said the Hamilton Princess Hotel was now in the third and final stage of its bid to seek approval to launch a casino.
Mr Major wo...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
A controversial government online shopping and shipping service is up and running.
People can sign up for MyBermudaPost, created by the Post Office in a public-private partnership deal with US-based courier company MyUS, on the Government’s website.
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DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Public primary schools were given $25,000 worth of school supplies yesterday.
Support Public Schools, set up to buy and deliver school supplies for government primary schools, delivered half of its $50,000 worth of equipment to schools in the central...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A jobless man escaped a penalty after he admitted breaching a Covid-19 curfew.
Police spotted Kevin Gardiner, 41, walking along Kindley Field Road in St George’s at about 2.15am on December 31, 2020, Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday.
He told office...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
An environmental charity has set out to raise more than $100,000 to remove scores of abandoned boats that litter the island’s waters.
Keep Bermuda Beautiful said it has launched fundraising efforts to tackle the problem of wrecked boats, which the ch...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda College will celebrate 24 new graduates at its second annual Winter Commencement tomorrow.
Duranda Greene, the college president, said half of the graduates had achieved GPAs above 3.0, which meant they would graduate with merit or distinctio...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An order to extend public health emergency regulations has been published in the Government’s Official Gazette.
The Public Health (Covid-19) Emergency Order was passed in the House of Assembly on December 10, 2021.
A Government spokeswoman said: “Sim...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter