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Six Bermudian artists who raised the bar for arts and culture on the island were honoured by the Minister of Youth, Culture and Sport.
Ernest Peets celebrated the six men and women during the Bermuda Arts Council’s annual awards ceremony on Sunday at...
DATE: Feb 22, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
School enrolment dropped to an all-time low in 2020, statisticians have revealed.
The low pupil numbers, which sat at 8,916 pupils two years ago, the latest figures available, has dropped 1 per cent almost every year between 2011 and 2020.
A Departm...
DATE: Feb 22, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A watchdog set up to monitor the pharmaceutical sector is to be beefed up, MPs have heard.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, told the House of Assembly that the Bermuda Pharmacy Council — which carries out checks on the registration of pharmacies and ...
DATE: Feb 22, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
David Burt is acting “almost like a dictator” by holding three major Cabinet portfolios at once, one of the Premier’s best known predecessors has warned
DATE: Feb 21, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Hollywood power couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones have submitted new plans to rebuild South Shore, Devonshire resort Ariel Sands
DATE: Feb 21, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Firefighters battled two vehicle blazes in Pembroke this morning
DATE: Feb 21, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Michael DeSilva, the former police commissioner, is in line to become the next Ombudsman, MP Derrick Burgess has claimed
DATE: Feb 21, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A crackdown on companies that have forced people to accept inferior working conditions because of the Covid-19 pandemic has been launched.
Jason Hayward, the labour minister, said action was needed because workers were not regulated, registered or gi...
DATE: Feb 21, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
A string of questions about when competitive tenders will be put out for three Covid-19 technology contracts have been stonewalled by the Government.
The contracts — for software to manage the effects of the pandemic — were earlier awarded without a ...
DATE: Feb 21, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
The US House of Representatives has unveiled a room to honour a former Bermuda barber who became the first Black person to win a seat in Congress.
House members met descendants of Joseph Rainey this month to open the Joseph H Rainey Room in the US Ca...
DATE: Feb 21, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson