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The One Bermuda Alliance has joined environmental groups in opposition of proposed changes to planning legislation.
The amendments, tabled earlier this month by Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, would remove the need for Special Development...
DATE: Jul 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Belco is to commemorate employees who lost their lives while working at the company in celebration of Safety and Health at Work Day tomorrow.
The employees who lost their lives in service to the company are as follows: James Trice Earl who died on Oc...
DATE: Jul 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Two parents who defied the Government’s mandatory quarantine on unvaccinated travellers flying into Bermuda will be charged in court, the Ministry of Health announced last night.
Sophia Cannonier, at home with her husband Michael Watson, said the two...
DATE: Jul 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A former Bermuda pastor, Silvester Beaman, has been elected and consecrated a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
David Burt, the Premier, congratulated Bishop Beaman, who formerly served at St Paul AME Church in Hamilton, and Bethel AM...
DATE: Jul 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A local limo service started to turn heads this weekend as their new Tesla Model X electric car hit the road.
Sam Mathews Jr, who runs Piece of the Rock Limo Service with his father, said: “We have had people jump out of their cars to take pictures a...
DATE: Jul 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Three men appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday accused of conspiring to smuggle more than $3.6 million worth of cannabis.
Zachary Morris, 27, Mikkail Crockwell, 31, and Eugene Ball, 28, were all charged with the offence, which was alleged to have...
DATE: Jul 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Bermuda has to “address its aversion to immigration” and also find ways to encourage highly educated Bermudians who have emigrated to return, according to economist Craig Simmons.
That’s because it has an ageing population which is failing produce e...
DATE: Jul 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Bill Zuill
Detours continue on bus routes one and three, the Department of Public Transportation has advised.
The route diversion is owing to road works in the Shark Hole Hill and Harrington Sound Road areas.
Route one buses will continue to travel up Collect...
DATE: Jul 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Royal Bermuda Regiment’s newest recruits have been praised for their dedication to duty after they passed the halfway mark of two weeks of basic training.
Governor Rena Lalgie, who is Commander-in-Chief of the RBR, visited the 22 new soldiers and...
DATE: Jul 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An environmental drive to create a coastal red mangrove forest on Trunk Island has been boosted by a $125,000 donation from Aspen Bermuda.
Aspen will give $25,000 a year over five years to support the Bermuda Zoological Society project on the Harrin...
DATE: Jul 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan