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The flight path of a great blue heron that stopped off in Bermuda during a 2,000 mile-plus migration from Canada to Cuba has been tracked by a team of US scientists.
The heron, named Harper, left her summer feeding ground in New Brunswick, Canada, on...
DATE: Nov 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Coming out as gay and a historic fight for same sex marriage are highlighted in a Bermudian actor’s new comedy special.
Roderick Ferguson, who lives in New York City, will stage Man Overboard!!!, in his new home town.
The cabaret-style performance lo...
DATE: Nov 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Hospital patients will be allowed to have some visitors from tomorrow after a fall in the number of coronavirus cases.
An easing of restrictions will follow the “long and brutal” surge of Covid-19 patients linked to the Delta variant of the virus.
A ...
DATE: Nov 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Workers have complained they are being taken advantage of through “precarious" contracts which labelled them as independent contractors, the labour minister said yesterday.
Jason Hayward added people were worried that some businesses had used the eco...
DATE: Nov 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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The Covid-19 death toll rose to 104 yesterday as the Minister of Health announced another three coronavirus-related deaths.
Kim Wilson said that ten new cases were discovered among 6,461 test results since the last update.
Half of the ten were classe...
DATE: Nov 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Blue chip names are prepared to invest in the redevelopment of the island’s biggest hotel, the finance minister said today.
Curtis Dickinson said Gencom, the US-based owners of the Fairmont Southampton Hotel, had met Government representatives last m...
DATE: Nov 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A trial date was set yesterday for a man accused of causing a boat crash that killed a 24-year-old man.
Mikado Burchall, 35, will appear in the Supreme Court on April 18 next year.
Mr Burchall pleaded not guilty in 2019 to the manslaughter of Adrian ...
DATE: Nov 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The 2021 hurricane season has become the third most active on record – although Bermuda has so far been spared.
The Bermuda Weather Service said that, with the formation of Subtropical Storm Wanda far to the island’s east, the season had reached 21 n...
DATE: Nov 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda is on a “glide path” to a small budget surplus by 2023-24, the finance minister said yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson added the country’s last round of borrowing was calculated to last until that financial year.
Mr Dickinson said: “We have borrowe...
DATE: Nov 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An accounting and auditing heavyweight is to lead the Government’s economic recovery plan, the finance minister revealed yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson said financial services firm KPMG had been selected as the project manager for the plan, outlined in ...
DATE: Nov 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell