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An environmental charity has set out to raise more than $100,000 to remove scores of abandoned boats that litter the island’s waters.
Keep Bermuda Beautiful said it has launched fundraising efforts to tackle the problem of wrecked boats, which the ch...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda College will celebrate 24 new graduates at its second annual Winter Commencement tomorrow.
Duranda Greene, the college president, said half of the graduates had achieved GPAs above 3.0, which meant they would graduate with merit or distinctio...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An order to extend public health emergency regulations has been published in the Government’s Official Gazette.
The Public Health (Covid-19) Emergency Order was passed in the House of Assembly on December 10, 2021.
A Government spokeswoman said: “Sim...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Active cases of Covid-19 have continued to climb, up to 1,953 from the 1,882 announced five days ago.
There are now 13 people in hospital with the coronavirus, two of them in intensive care, as well as a new record for active infections.
There were t...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A “systemic breakdown” in the healthcare system that allowed some people to slip through the cracks has to be tackled, activists said yesterday.
Friends of Milton Ming – a Bermudian chef who died days after he was flown overseas for treatment – s...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Police had a narrow escape just before the start of curfew this morning when a driver clocked at 103km/h – or 64mph – just missed three officers at a traffic stop.
The driver failed to stop for police at a stop in Warwick at 12.25am, five minutes bef...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Drive for Change
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Travellers en route to the US will be able to get coronavirus tests at doctors’ and dental surgeries, it was revealed today.
The Bermuda Health Council said options for people to obtain fit-to-fly certificates would be expanded after an “unprecedente...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A man convicted of a 2011 murder will have his case heard by the Privy Council in London next month.
Devon Hewey and Jay Dill were sentenced to life in prison in 2013 after they were found guilty by a unanimous verdict of the killing of footballer Ra...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Children aged 12 and up are now eligible for booster shots against Covid-19, the Government announced last night.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, revealed the booster jab could go to children who received their second dose of the vaccine six month a...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Business leaders have backed quarantine policy changes for people who are close contacts of infected people.
Karl Massam, the head of the Chamber of Commerce’s restaurant division and general manager of the Yellowfin restaurant group, said yesterday ...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes