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A Pembroke school hopes to install a solar array on their roof as part of an effort to improve sustainability and raise environmental awareness.
Carlos Ferreira, chairman of the Mount Saint Agnes Board of Governors, said the board agreed in 2019 to m...
DATE: Aug 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The public has been asked for its views as the Government draws up legislation to tackle the threat of invasive plants and animals.
The proposed Invasive Alien Species Act was designed to prevent the introduction of new pest species and control the ...
DATE: Aug 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government has produced a policy paper outlining changes to immigration law that will give long-term residents permanent residency rights.
The 11-page document – Securing Permanency for Long-Term Residents – highlights the need “to create a fair, tra...
DATE: Aug 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The deadline for a public survey on solar energy has been extended by two weeks, the Government said today.
A spokesman for the home affairs ministry said the closing date would be August 20 instead the original August 6.
He added: “This survey is vi...
DATE: Aug 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A nurse who breached the Covid-19 curfew escaped prosecution after she was able to prove she was asked to start her shift earlier than scheduled.
It is believed Sandrina Gifford is the first Magistrates’ Court defendant to escape a penalty for the of...
DATE: Aug 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The general secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teachers has stepped down after 22 years in the job at the request of the union.
Mike Charles confirmed that he was asked to quit and that he left the job in early June.
But he refused to discuss the rea...
DATE: Aug 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Ministry of Legal Affairs has been ordered to reveal whether a report on allegations of misconduct made against the head of the island's child protection agency existed.
Gitanjali Gutierrez, the Information Commissioner, insisted there was a publ...
DATE: Aug 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
The leader of the Opposition highlighted Bermuda’s positive relationship with the US in a meeting with new US Consul General Karen Grissette.
Senators Ben Smith and Marcus Jones attended the one-hour meeting alongside Cole Simons, the One Bermuda All...
DATE: Aug 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Visits from the Viking Orion cruise ship will affect access to a waterfront car park over the next few weeks, the City of Hamilton warned today.
A spokeswoman said the No. 5 car park on Front Street would be closed to vehicles on Friday and Saturday ...
DATE: Aug 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A campaign group allied to the Progressive Labour Party yesterday hit out at the Government and accused it of ignoring “grass roots, labour and Black Bermudians”.
A letter to the party from the group Move Bermuda earlier this month accused the PLP of...
DATE: Aug 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell