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The hours for a walk-in vaccine facility at the Hamilton Princess and Beach Club have been extended.
It will now operate from 3pm to 7pm tonight and tomorrow at the Harbour View Ball Room.
A spokeswoman for the ministry of health said: “We encourage ...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Bermuda’s biggest demonstration in recent times was held a year ago, just 13 days after the police killing of unarmed Black man George Floyd in the US was captured on a mobile phone.
A jury found Derek Chauvin, a White policeman who knelt on Mr Floyd...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Licensed trade professionals yesterday welcomed the lifeline of loosened Covid-19 restrictions – but warned that more needed to be done to ease the plight of a sector hammered by health precautions.
Philip Barnett, the president of the Island Restau...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A solar farm set up at the airport could be bought by the Bermuda Infrastructure Fund (BIF) for $9.1 million later this month, MPs heard on Friday.
Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, told the House of Assembly the BIF, set up by the internati...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A pressure group has accused the Government of hijacking a hearing on legal action to block the imposition of mandatory hotel quarantines for travellers to Bermuda.
Constitutional Freedom Bermuda said lawyers for the Government “ambushed” the hearing...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Friends and family of a teenage girl killed in a crash last week gathered near the scene of the incident and wore pink as a tribute at the weekend.
A procession of cars decked with pink ribbons drove past the scene where Amber Bridges, who was 16, di...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Opposition tonight took a swing at the Government over a delay in the implementation of hotel quarantines for travellers.
The measure, to be paid for by returned residents and visitors, was scheduled to be introduced today.
But the Government ann...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Veteran activist Glenn Fubler said he was unable to finish watching the video of the murder of George Floyd.
Mr Fubler, a civil and human rights campaigner for most of his 71 years, said: “It was so obviously inhuman – and captured by a 17-year-old g...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The island’s top magistrate has called for a review of “egregiously low” penalties for businesses that fail to pay for staff health insurance.
Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe told Magistrates’ Court on that the maximum $1,000 fine for offences was “a s...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The murder of George Floyd and support for the Black Lives Matter movement saw thousands march from Front Street a year ago today. Bermuda-based companies were also galvanised to look at how they could make a difference. The Royal Gazette heard abou...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
