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Bermuda Health Council staff held a roadside demonstration yesterday to boost public morale as Covid-19 continued to lay siege to the country.
The Bermuda Health Council said the five-strong demonstration of support on East Broadway near Hamilton dre...
DATE: Oct 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Campaigns
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
International businesses have donated $281,000 to buy fast coronavirus tests for public schools.
The money will be used to buy more than 99,000 lateral flow test kits, which allow users to test themselves for the coronavirus and give results inside 1...
DATE: Oct 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The St George’s Rotary Club has given $20,000 to charities across the island.
Ihab Azab, the club’s immediate past president, said the club was aware of the challenges faced by charities over the past year.
He said the club’s members had worked dilig...
DATE: Oct 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A charitable club has made cash donations to three nursing homes as part of its public service work.
Marlene Christopher, the first vice-president and past president of Hamilton Lions Club, said Lions Club International had a tradition of using a day...
DATE: Oct 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The renaming of Corkscrew Hill in honour of Flora Duffy, Bermuda’s first gold medal winner, cannot be made official until early next month.
While Ms Duffy and officials were photographed with a completed Flora Duffy Hill sign on October 18 – Flora Du...
DATE: Oct 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A cruise ship prevented from docking by high winds for two days appears to have made it today.
By 8.30am, the Norwegian Breakaway was tied up alongside the Royal Naval Dockyard after making her way along the North Shore.
Her arrival on Wednesday had ...
DATE: Oct 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A Robin Hood restaurant manager recalled how customers dropped to the floor in terror as soon as shots were fired during the double murder on Tuesday night.
Zakaria Ibraheem was in the restaurant’s dining room when he saw a gunman rush through the f...
DATE: Oct 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Gang infighting caused a deadly shooting in a Hamilton pub that left two men dead and two others injured, police said yesterday.
Police said that more than 20 round of ammunition were fired during Tuesday’s attack at the Robin Hood Pub on Richmond R...
DATE: Oct 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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Bermuda’s deaths from Covid-19 last night hit the grim milestone of 100 with two more fatalities related to coronavirus.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, also announced 12 new cases out of the 3,450 latest test results for the virus.
Active cases con...
DATE: Oct 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
David Burt last night warned of rising prices, global challenges and the increasing toll of the Covid-19 pandemic, saying “things will get worse before they get better”.
Speaking at the 56th annual Progressive Labour Party Delegates Conference, the ...
DATE: Oct 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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