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Any training provided to learner motorcycle riders on Bermuda’s roads must be conducted by highly trained professional instructors for it to be safe, a surgeon and road safety campaigner has warned.
Joseph Froncioni said that while he welcomed the T...
DATE: Nov 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Residents are wearing their poppies with pride ahead of tomorrow’s Remembrance Day ceremony.
Members of the Bermuda Regiment were out in force on the streets of Hamilton handing out the paper flowers and collecting donations for the Bermuda Legion — ...
DATE: Nov 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Vance Campbell said today he was looking forward to being consulted on the appointment of a new chief executive for the Bermuda Tourism Authority.
The Minister of Tourism was asked at a press conference when he expected the successful candidate for t...
DATE: Nov 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda is not competitive when it comes to hotel investment and needs to change approach, David Burt said yesterday.
He added at a post-Throne Speech press conference that the tourism minister needs greater discretion when it comes to dealing with d...
DATE: Nov 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
Bermuda’s loss of direct flights to the major New England gateway city of Boston is linked to the island’s fall in hotel capacity, according to the Minister of Tourism.
Vance Campbell said he was “confident” that transport minister Wayne Furbert wou...
DATE: Nov 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
People with O positive blood were asked to donate after an emergency reduced stocks of the blood type.
Donors were asked to make an appointment, although the Bermuda Hospitals Board added that “walk-ins are accepted”.
Eyitayo Fakunle, a consultant ha...
DATE: Nov 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The number of Bermudians needing dialysis treatment for kidney disease has increased fivefold in the past 20 years, according to a specialist doctor.
Nephrologist Raphael Loutoby said about 250 people on the island require dialysis, compared with abo...
DATE: Nov 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Stefano Ausenda
The earth is being plunged into “climate chaos”, according to prominent members of the community who are calling on people to take steps to protect the environment.
Anne Hyde, a former executive director for environmental charity Keep Bermuda Beauti...
DATE: Nov 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A Pembroke woman was banned from the roads for 18 months after refusing to take a breath test.
Natalie Moran, 44, pleaded guilty to the offence when she appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
Cindy Clarke, for the Crown, said police officers wer...
DATE: Nov 10, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Stefano Ausenda
The end of the $40 Travel Authorisation form has been welcomed by Vance Campbell, the tourism minister, who said it was “good that we have that distraction out of the way” to focus on real issues.
The form, originally imposed as border protection aga...
DATE: Nov 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
