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Sports captains at a private school have started a campaign to keep pupils fit despite Covid-19 restrictions.
Ellie Richmond and Andre Mussenden, both 16, of Warwick Academy, said that the Dig Deep Fitness Challenge asked schoolmates to submit videos...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
More than 1,000 people who have been vaccinated or have a clear Covid-19 test could turn out for the Bermuda Day Show.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Culture said entry to the National Sports Centre event will be open to essential workers who ha...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A sacked police officer who lost a legal battle to get his job back is to appeal the decision.
Victoria Greening, the lawyer for Oswin Pereira, claimed his case was of “huge public interest” as it concerned whether decisions of the Public Service Com...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
Construction of a fish processing plant promised for the East End is expected to begin before the end of the financial year next March, MPs have heard.
Business and design plans for the shoreside plant at Marginal Wharf in St David’s are being examin...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A controversial new law to let non-unionised staff vote on whether a workplace should retain union representation is scheduled to come into force next month.
But trade unions are still at loggerheads with Government over the change, which was approve...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A dispute over a roadside hedge near an accident hotspot could end with the landowner being ordered to move the bushes.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works minister, told MPs on Friday that the best solution might “appease the majority o...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Campaigns
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bad smells have forced efforts to market a disused resort to be put on hold, MPs heard on Friday.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, told the House of Assembly that the decision to halt the bid to get the former 9 Beaches r...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Government’s 50th annual summer day camps are to go ahead on July 5, with online registration starting from 9.30am next Wednesday.
Camps, for children aged four to 14, cost $60 a week.
Enrolment can be done through the Department of Youth, Sport ...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A new plan guiding “the development of Bermuda for many years to come” was tabled on Friday in the House of Assembly.
Tabling The Bermuda Plan 2018 Walter Roban, the home affairs minister, told MPs: “It is the product of consultation with the public...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A takeout restaurant gave food away free to thousands of customers after a computer glitch caused bank card transactions to fail to register.
But customers at Four Star locations in Flatts, Somerset and Warwick, as well as the Glaze Bakery on Church ...
DATE: May 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan