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A total of 88 per cent of people admitted to hospital with Covid-19 over the last few weeks were not vaccinated, the Bermuda Hospitals Board revealed today.
The BHB said 81 patients treated between March 14 to May 1 had not had the vaccine, 10, or 11...
DATE: May 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A schoolgirl who took part in a global debating competition with other teenagers until 5am has placed in the top 20.
McKenzie-Kohl Tuckett, 17, came 16th in this year’s World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships out of a field of mor...
DATE: May 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A teenager was fighting for his life after he was stabbed and robbed in broad daylight.
Detective Inspector Derricka Burns said it was a brazen act of violence which had “resulted in a young man being hospitalised for serious injuries”.
The attack h...
DATE: May 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The island’s pandemic death toll has risen to 31, it was revealed at the weekend.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, said it was with “a heavy heart” that she announced the latest victim.
Ms Wilson added: “Our hearts and prayers go out to the loved one...
DATE: May 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Police are to be armed with the latest video technology as part of the war on crime.
The Government has put out a tender up to 300 body camera systems for frontline officers.
Superintendent Sean Field-Lament said: “Modern policing is increasingly re...
DATE: May 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Mothers’ Day flowers were on Saturday handed out at a vaccination centre by top politicians.
David Burt, the Premier, Walter Roban, the home affairs minister and Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister gave the flowers away at the mobile vaccination c...
DATE: May 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A motorbike rider was banned from the roads for 18 months and fined $1,500 after he pleaded guilty to drink driving.
Magistrates’ Court heard that police followed Adam Fenos’s motorbike along South Road, in Devonshire, after they saw him riding too f...
DATE: May 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Government is to revise plans to create an events area at a South Shore resort earlier proposals were rejected.
The original proposal, which included an events lawn, restrooms, storage areas and a 42-space car on land to the west of the Bermudiana Be...
DATE: May 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An investigation has been launched after the island’s flagship pilot boat St David suffered severe damage after it crashed into a reef.
The smash happened as the boat was underway to the Northeast Breaker Beacon as part of a training exercise.
The cr...
DATE: May 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Legislators today slashed liquor licence fees in half in a bid to lift the spirits of a hospitality sector hammered by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance agreed to fast-track the Liquor Licence (Fee Reduction) Temporary Amendm...
DATE: May 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell