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The Ministry of Health is seeking supplies of a newly approved booster vaccine against Covid-19 that could ward off infectious fresh strains of the virus now responsible for waves of new cases worldwide.
The updated booster could prove effective agai...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Meteorologists are watching three weather systems, any of which could become the fourth named storm of the year.
None of the systems are considered threats to the island as of yesterday afternoon.
The US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An image of a boy preparing for his first Boxing Day Gombey performance is among the winning entries in the British Journal of Photography’s International Photography Award.
Meredith Andrews, the photographer, said it was a “real honour” that her wor...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An accomplished journalist. A skilful footballer. A dedicated father. A remarkable man.
Colin Roberts was born in Bromborough, Wirral, on August 15, 1947, the same day that India was partitioned. As someone who loved trivia, this fact was never lost ...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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The Government is to spend $4.5 million on an extensive refit of one of the oldest vessels in its fleet of ferries and tenders.
The Bermudian tender began its journey to to the Gladding-Hearn shipyard in Fall River, Massachusetts on Monday, and will ...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A facility to incinerate Bermuda’s medical waste could be built in St David’s, according to a planning application.
The application by MediWaste proposes the erection of a new structure on industrially zoned land on Wallers Point Road in Southsid...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Talks are being held to try and prevent a repeat of the scenes of passengers having to sleep on the floor of LF Wade International Airport after a transatlantic flight was diverted there.
The images of hundreds of travellers bedding down at the fligh...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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The wait is over for lovers of local lobsters, as the 2022-23 season opens from tomorrow until the end of next March.
But a decline in numbers of the local Caribbean spiny lobster, whose population has been hit by the loss of seagrass habitats, means...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Dark clouds couldn’t dampen the spirits of thousands of revellers who attended the final Harbour Nights of the summer last night.
In what must have been one of the busiest nights Front Street has witnessed in several years, tourists and locals soaked...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An amateur fisherman made the “catch of the day” after finding a message in a bottle in waters off South Shore at the weekend.
Sam Stan was in his Boston Whaler with two friends when he spotted the bottle about 300 metres off The Reefs resort in Sout...
DATE: Sep 01, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan