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A woman who appealed to the public for help to pay for overseas medical treatment said she was over the moon after she exceeded her £6,500 goal – $7,787 – in only a week.
Mickia Brangman raised £6,875 through a GoFundMe page to help her enrol in a s...
DATE: Jan 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Online enrolment for parents to register their children for the next school year has opened, the education ministry announced yesterday.
Registration options through the new PowerSchool online enrolment were released for preschool, primary school and...
DATE: Jan 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A Merchant Navy Officer Cadet at college in the UK is destined for a life on the ocean waves after he secured a job as a junior officer with a billion-dollar plus shipping company.
Marcus Simmons, from Warwick, was offered the trainee role with UK-ba...
DATE: Jan 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police are to set up roadside breath test checkpoints across the island next weekend.
A notice in the Official Gazette said checkpoints would be in operation on January 21, 22 and 23 in seven of the island’s nine parishes, with only St George’s and ...
DATE: Jan 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A cable ship was spotted steaming towards the island yesterday on her way to refuel and change its crew.
Peter Faber, a cable layer owned by Optic Marine, also known as the OMS group, sailed from the United States and berthed in Dockyard at about...
DATE: Jan 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A man was fined $900 yesterday after he admitted being in charge of a boat while impaired.
Mark Riihiluoma, 50, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to the offence, which happened on October 29 last year near Darrell’s Wharf in Warwick.
The amount of...
DATE: Jan 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Quarantine periods are to be cut from next week, the health minister revealed yesterday.
Kim Wilson added that schoolchildren would also switch from PCR tests to the antigen type.
Ms Wilson insisted that the changes to quarantine requirements would h...
DATE: Jan 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
A new record for Covid-19 numbers was revealed last night as cases shot up to 1,882.
The total surpassed the 1,612 peak of cases logged on September 21 last year – the height of Bermuda’s fourth wave.
A total of 661 new infections were recorded from ...
DATE: Jan 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The loss of the Government’s science adviser and head of its Covid-19 test lab in just 18 days’ time will have no effect on the lab’s performance, the health minister declared yesterday.
Kim Wilson said the resignation of Carika Weldon, the executive...
DATE: Jan 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A maths tutoring centre has teamed up with an asset management firm to launch a scholarship drive to send 500 youngsters to summer maths camps.
Equilibria Capital Management has agreed to fund 50 scholarships and it is hoped that the scholarship driv...
DATE: Jan 14, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes