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Bermuda joined with nations across the Caribbean for a regional conference on renewable energy.
Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, represented the island at the 13th Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum, held online on October 28 and 29.
Mr Roba...
DATE: Nov 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Three research programmes at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences have been given new funds to continue their work.
The Bermuda Bio-Optics Programme was awarded cash by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Hydrostation S was ba...
DATE: Nov 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An elderly woman was confronted by three masked men during a home invasion last night.
Police were called after residents heard screams from a home on Queen Street in St George at about 9pm.
Officers were informed three men – masked and dressed in bl...
DATE: Nov 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A care worker was blocked from getting to the house of an elderly disabled man because of major flooding, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The caregiver could not get his bike along Mill Creek Road in Pembroke last Monday after the street, a notorious f...
DATE: Nov 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Two men appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning charged with three counts of murder.
Siohn Akinstall, 19, was accused of the killing of Ayinde Eve, 27, and Micah Davis, 22, at the Robin Hood Pub and Restaurant on October 26.
He was also accu...
DATE: Nov 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The spiralling level of roads deaths is an “extreme concern” – but a Government minister yesterday stopped short of declaring the problem a national emergency.
Renee Ming, the national security minister, added that driving behaviour could be a factor...
DATE: Nov 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
The number of active cases of the coronavirus has fallen to 49, it was revealed last night.
Two people are in hospital for the virus, with one in intensive care – the lowest number of inpatients since August 23.
The numbers show a continued decline f...
DATE: Nov 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The $3.5 million overpaid in unemployment benefits over the Covid-19 crisis is being targeted for return, the labour minister has insisted.
Jason Hayward said: “I know that the Ministry of Finance has a team working hard to recover those funds.
“The ...
DATE: Nov 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Public schools will no longer have entire classes quarantined if a Covid-19 case is detected, the education minister said yesterday.
Diallo Rabain added the school surveillance unit will instead contact people found to be close or casual contacts and...
DATE: Nov 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A “leave no one behind approach” should be adopted by governments as part of the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, a regional conference heard.
The news came as Tinee Furbert, the Minister of Social Development and Seniors, outlined discussions a...
DATE: Nov 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan