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More than $7 million will be allocated to Covid-19 pandemic response work in the next financial year, the health minister announced yesterday.
Kim Wilson said that the funding would also support the Molecular Diagnostics and Research Laboratory, at p...
DATE: Mar 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A Commission of Inquiry into allegations of land grabs will undergo a judicial review to see if it acted inside the law, it was revealed yesterday.
Khalid Wasi, also known as Raymond Davis, and Myron Piper were successful in their argument before Ass...
DATE: Mar 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Over the past two years we have fought to keep the cover price at the existing $2.00.
Unfortunately, continued increases in the cost of raw materials, shipping and the costs related to business in Bermuda have dictated that we must again raise our c...
DATE: Mar 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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A controversial move to legalise cannabis will go back to the House of Assembly today.
The legislation was earlier blocked by the Senate – but the Upper House can only hold up Bills for a year before they go back to MPs for another vote.
Lawrence Sco...
DATE: Mar 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Shaun Connolly
The mother of a schoolboy who suffered a severe brain injury in a car crash has highlighted March’s status as Brain Injury Awareness Month.
Helen Cart said she planned to use the international commemoration month to promote brain injury prevention, a...
DATE: Mar 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A Supreme Court judge has stood by her decision to keep a man convicted of a sex assault on a schoolgirl in custody until he can be sentenced.
Jamel Simons, 38, was found guilty last year of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in 2002 when he was ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Residents of St David’s and visitors to the island have appealed for a supermarket to fill a major gap in the area.
Almost a fifth of people who responded to a survey about the area said that the lack of somewhere to buy groceries was their biggest ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
World Book Day was celebrated by schoolchildren around the island yesterday.
Nikita Robinson, from Magic 102.7FM’s Worship Room, who organised the event, said that readers had fanned out from St George’s to Somerset to visit nursery, and primary scho...
DATE: Mar 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Chelsea Hill, RG Intern
The National Sports Centre is to get a bit greener with new energy-efficient lights expected to slash its electricity bills.
Craig Tyrrell, the operations manager at the Devonshire stadium, said the switch to LED bulbs was part of a drive towards cut...
DATE: Mar 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
International Women’s Day will be celebrated next week.
The IWD Bermuda Committee invited participants to take pictures at the purple flower wall at Hamilton City Hall.
Purple symbolises women’s suffrage.
Guests at next Tuesday“s event will be invite...
DATE: Mar 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
