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Two bus routes will be rerouted starting from today owing to road works in the area of Shark Hole Hill, Hamilton Parish.
Bus routes one and three will be affected in both directions until Monday, July 12.
Route one will travel up Collector’s Hill ...
DATE: Jul 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Firefighters responded to two incidents yesterday related to the heavy downpour.
Calypso clothing store on Front Street suffered flooding and there was also a fire in an electrical vault at the AS Cooper building, also on Front Street.
At 10.35am, B...
DATE: Jul 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A policeman under criminal investigation for allegedly “causing disaffection” among his colleagues has filed a criminal complaint against six other officers, including the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Police.
Sergeant Mark Monk and his wif...
DATE: Jul 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
The approval of “trusted venues” will make “a huge difference” in clearing exemptions for large gatherings this summer, the Senate heard yesterday.
Locations that qualify for the designation will be able to host events at 50 per cent capacity without...
DATE: Jul 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Lawyers representing three Bermuda residents challenging controversial Covid-19 public safety restrictions presented their case before the Chief Justice yesterday.
Courtenay Griffiths QC and Mark Pettingill – representing Albert Brewster, Vincent Li...
DATE: Jul 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
David Burt, the Premier, has sent condolences to the people of Haiti following the assassination of the nation’s president Jovenel Moise.
Mr Moise was killed after gunmen stormed his home in the Haiti capital of Port-au-Prince today.
His wife Martine...
DATE: Jul 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
An academic mentoring charity has hired veteran educator Timothy Jackson as its executive director.
Dr Jackson, chairman of the Board of Education and instructional leader, will assume his role with the Impact Mentoring Academy (IMA) in September fo...
DATE: Jul 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Education Minister has praised the graduating classes of 2021, congratulating them on letting “nothing get in your way, not even the unpredictability of the times you faced”.
In a statement about the graduating classes of the Bermuda Public Schoo...
DATE: Jul 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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The Department of Culture is again hosting its Emancipation Youth Creativity Competition as part of this month’s Emancipation observances.
And Bermuda’s young people are being encouraged to submit their poems, WhatsApp or YouTube videos, or any other...
DATE: Jul 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A youth organisation helped to empower almost 700 young people last year – bringing the total it has engaged through its programmes to more than 4,400.
Endeavour Bermuda released its Impact Report yesterday which showed that 695 young people had bene...
DATE: Jul 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson