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People looking to put on functions for more than 100 guests are being asked not to submit applications until next Monday, June 28.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sport, which has taken over responsibility for granting exemptions...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Road works to advance the solar farm at LF Wade International Airport will impact traffic on Kindley Field Road from next week.
The Ministry of Public Works said that Saturn Solar Development, the developer behind the solar farm, will reopen an exist...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Travelling residents are still being blocked from boarding flights to Bermuda because travel regulations listed on Government’s website have not been updated, it has been revealed.
Last Friday, Government jettisoned a controversial directive groundin...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The island’s top magistrate yesterday said that Covid regulations are ‘criminalising people who are otherwise not criminals’.
Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe told Magistrates’ Court that many breaches of the Public Health Regulations created criminal r...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A union leader is calling for tougher penalties for “unscrupulous employers” who try to weaken union representation.
Armell Thomas, the president of the the Bermuda Public Service Union, said membership in some bargaining units was under threat from ...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermudians feel that their “human rights and constitutional rights are being trampled upon” by “onerous” quarantine rules.
And greater debate is needed over Government’s Covid-19 regulations in order to safeguard the rights of Bermudians, according t...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A 56-year-old man shot multiple times a week ago has been moved out of intensive care, police said yesterday.
The shooting happened at about 7.30pm at Darrell’s Wharf in Warwick on Wednesday, June 16, when two people rode up on a motorcylce and shot ...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
An independent senator today joined calls to save a historic building earmarked for demolition.
Michelle Simmons, vice president of the Senate, said Wantley, located on Princess Street, was a window into the island’s collective past and should be pre...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A 36-year-old man on trial for sexually assaulting a woman said yesterday the alleged attack never took place.
Crown counsel Javone Rogers told Magistrates’ Court that on May 6, 2018 the man yanked the woman’s pants down, pushed her onto a bed and to...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
Jurors involved in a murder trial are all to be questioned about their deliberations in the case, the Court of Appeal heard yesterday.
Cleveland Rogers and Katrina Burgess were both jailed for the murder of Marcus Gibbings, who was fatally stabbed in...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes