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Overseas firefighters are being hired to meet staffing requirements at the airport, the national security minister told MPs yesterday.
Firefighters have complained about lack of resources available to meet international airport requirements as well a...
DATE: Jul 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Magistrate Maxanne Anderson said it was an honour and a privilege to serve the people after she was named the new senior magistrate.
Rena Lalgie, the Governor, announced the appointment this afternoon after a recommendation from the Judicial and Lega...
DATE: Jul 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The owners of the Cambridge Beaches resort have been granted a string of tax breaks for the next ten years while the property undergoes significant upgrades.
Under an order presented in the House of Assembly yesterday, Cambridge Beaches Holdings Limi...
DATE: Jul 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A man was murdered and another was injured in a shooting in Flatts yesterday morning, police said.
Officers attended after several reports of gunshots just after 1.10am in the area of Paradise Lane and Middle Road, Smith’s.
Patrol cars arrived at th...
DATE: Jul 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermuda passport applications have quadrupled since March, overwhelming the Department of Immigration and pushing delays beyond the expected wait of 11 weeks.
Jason Hayward, the Minister of Economy and Labour, told the House of Assembly today that an...
DATE: Jul 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda is in “a better financial position” than expected earlier in the year, the Premier, David Burt, told the House this morning.
Mr Burt, who is also the Minister of Finance, said that when the Budget was presented in February, revenues for the c...
DATE: Jul 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Legislators highlighted yesterday how social and economic circumstances played a part in leading young people into gang activity.
MPs made passionate pleas for residents to do what they could to help tackle the scourge, when they debated the Criminal...
DATE: Jul 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Youngsters with a taste for adventure will set sail today to learn about the life and impact of the enslaved Bermudian woman Mary Prince.
In the Wake of Mary Prince, a programme held between the Bermuda Sloop Foundation and the Duke of Edinburgh Awar...
DATE: Jul 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Pensions payments to seniors are set for a 2.75 per cent boost, with the increase back dated nearly one year, MPs heard yesterday.
David Burt, the Premier and finance minister, told the House of Assembly the rise “fully covers the overall rate of inf...
DATE: Jul 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda College’s art students are displaying their work this month at the Bermuda Society of Arts Gallery at City Hall.
Worke range from a series of faceless portraits of people with expressions like “Black father are not deadbeats” and “Surpri...
DATE: Jul 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
News Staff