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A convicted sex offender has launched a legal bid to avoid being deported back to his homeland of Jamaica.
Brittonie Taylor, released from Westgate last October after serving eight years for a serious sex assault, will ask the Supreme Court today to ...
DATE: Apr 30, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
An oversight in the commissioning of the North Power Station and “incorrect operating instructions” sparked an island-wide power outage last year, energy firm Belco revealed yesterday.
A Belco spokesman said the company had been “resolving warranty i...
DATE: Apr 30, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A drive-through vaccination programme could see fewer patients in the future as many people still to get the jab remain apprehensive, nurses warned yesterday.
Staff at a pop-up clinic at the Turtle Hill Golf Club at the Fairmont Southampton hotel inj...
DATE: Apr 30, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
It must be one of the stranger warnings that the Island’s Maritime Operations Centre has ever had to issue.
Ships, beware, a French inter-continental ballistic missile could be heading your way, stay clear of a large swathe of the Atlantic near Bermu...
DATE: Apr 30, 2021
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A drug trafficker jailed for 18 years has had an appeal for a lighter sentence rejected.
Omar Davy, 40, was found guilty of smuggling $765,700 worth of heroin on a flight from Toronto in 2018.
Last month he launched an appeal for a lesser senten...
DATE: Apr 30, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A woman seriously injured in a crash has been flown overseas for medical treatment.
The 20-year-old motorcyclist suffered major head injuries after her macine was in collision with a truck at the junction of Middle Road and Verdmont Road, in Smith’s,...
DATE: Apr 30, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The family of the late jazz drummer Clarence “Tootsie” Bean was hit with a double tragedy with the death of his wife, Stella.
The Bermuda Entertainment Union offered condolences to the Bean family after the death of Ms Bean, 91, just four days after ...
DATE: Apr 30, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Obituaries
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda has been asked to join an international virtual conference to mark the one year anniversary of the murder of a Black man by a policeman in the US state of Minnesota.
Racial Reflections, Remembrances and Reckoning will feature a panel of e...
DATE: Apr 30, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Campaigns
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The Transport Control Department has reopened to the public, but will provide a reduced service.
A TCD spokeswoman said: “Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, adjustments have been made to the provision of services to our customers.
“Initially, our aim will...
DATE: Apr 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Students in higher education can apply for a $5,000 scholarship to help with their costs.
Devonshire Parish Council said its autumn scholarships were available to undergraduate and postgraduate students who had lived in the parish for at least five y...
DATE: Apr 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson