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A disabilities campaigner has teamed up with a specialist security business and the Government to offer GPS devices at a discount for seniors with memory problems and people with disabilities.
LaKiesha Wolffe, of the Disability Centre of Bermuda, Inv...
DATE: May 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Just three new cases of the coronavirus were logged yesterday.
The positive results were among 1,204 test results that came back to health officials – a positivity rate of 0.2 per cent.
The news came as Ayo Oyinloye, the chief medical officer, reveal...
DATE: May 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A truck driver was banned from the roads for 18 months and fined after he admitted being behind the wheel while more than three times the legal alcohol limit.
Magistrates’ Court heard on Wednesday that Humberto Pacheco, 58, was stopped by police afte...
DATE: May 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A group of five people caught out after the Covid-19 curfew Government curfew may have to wait eight weeks to be sentenced.
Magistrates’ Court ordered social inquiry reports on the defendants, but heard some of the five spoke only Portuguese and woul...
DATE: May 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A total of three people were yesterday fined for breaches of the Covid-19 curfew.
Ian Hughes, 43, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to breaking the former midnight to 5am curfew.
The court heard that police found Hughes, from Smith’s, at the corne...
DATE: May 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Bermuda will move to phase 2 of its road map to normality from Sunday, the health minister said this evening.
Kim Wilson said Bermuda had achieved the targets set out by the Premier in his national address and therefore could reduce restrictions.
F...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police today renewed an appeal for witnesses after three crashes, two of them fatal and one which left two bike riders in hospital.
Marvin Lambe, 56, lost his life in a collision at the pedestrian crossing outside the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zo...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s triathlon star has appealed to the public to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
Flora Duffy, a two-time world champion and Olympian, posted a photograph of herself on social media after she got the first of the double shot Pfizer vaccine.
She...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Public schools are expected to re-open next Monday – if public health targets allow.
Diallo Rabain, the education minister, said the Education Emergency Measures Committee had met yesterday and the plan would be confirmed when David Burt, the Premier...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Two people, one of them 81 years old, died after separate traffic collisions that happened minutes apart on Tuesday evening.
Leon Eugene Thomas, 81, known as Eugene, and Marvin Lambe, 56, were the third and fourth deaths on the roads this year.
A pol...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes