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Bermuda’s Covid-19 numbers continued to fall last night with a drop of 36 to 241 from the 277 active cases recorded last Thursday.
There were ten people in hospital, one of them in intensive care.
The island’s death toll from Covid-19 rose to 127 at ...
DATE: Mar 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An official suffered verbal abuse from some parents when children were being screened to attend schools, a testing coordinator told senior civil servants.
Tarik Bean-Darrell urged the Department of Education to address the problem when it emerged las...
DATE: Mar 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Canadian navy ships en route to support Nato forces in Europe docked in Bermuda over the weekend.
The two vessels, supply ship MV Asterix and the frigate HMCS Halifax, arrived on Saturday at King’s Wharf and Heritage Wharf in Dockyard.
They are sched...
DATE: Mar 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda is to become a field station for a new study on the songs of humpback whales, it was announced yesterday.
The study, “Sound of Science”, will explore differences in song trends and phrases between North Atlantic whales and their South Pacific...
DATE: Mar 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A law firm yesterday asked a court to waive legal privilege in a dispute over an $18 million loan for a hotel development that was never paid back.
The move came after Mexico Infrastructure Finance, who provided the cash to jump-start the Par la Vill...
DATE: Mar 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Seniors can learn about using social media online at a Safer Internet Day tomorrow.
The free, annual event hosted by the Government will be at St Paul’s African Methodist Church’s Centennial Hall, from 10am until 2pm.
A spokesman said that the sessi...
DATE: Mar 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A man was sentenced to a total of five months in jail yesterday after he admitted possession of $800 worth of crack cocaine with intent to supply.
Magistrates’ Court heard that police stopped Delun Fishenden, 22, on Southside Road, St George’s after ...
DATE: Mar 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A judge has dismissed a former police officer’s appeal against a sexual assault conviction, likening his behaviour to a “creeping tomcat quietly hunting its prey”.
Jermari Belboda, 27, was found guilty by magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo in 2020 of an ass...
DATE: Mar 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Government backbencher has apologised for comments he made in the House of Assembly that included “monkey” references.
Christopher Famous added that he accepted a different phrase should have been used to make his point.
The Progressive Labour Part...
DATE: Mar 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Two people have died after separate road crashes, police.
A spokesman said that a 42-year-old woman involved in a single-vehicle car crash on Beacon Hill, in Sandys, at about 10.35pm on Friday had died.
He added that a 51-year-old man who was involv...
DATE: Mar 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
News Staff