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Students have been able to participate virtually in a programme teaching them about ocean conservation and how to be confident in the water.
Thanks to sponsorship from AXA XL, part of the Kids on the Reef programme for students attending public midd...
DATE: Apr 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A team of experts from the Smithsonian Institution have teamed up with the National Museum of Bermuda to host a free webinar next week.
The panel of all-female researchers will explain the role that personal stories and objects play in the developmen...
DATE: Apr 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A new charity has been formed to help empower young adult men.
Transitional Community Services is aimed at helping at-risk males aged 18 to 34.
Tiffanne Thomas, the executive director, said local data showed that “disproportionately our young adult m...
DATE: Apr 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Birdcage is abloom with flowers and foliage in celebration of The Garden Club of Bermuda’s 100th anniversary.
Nikki Gurret, a member of the club, created the installation on Front Street in the early hours of yesterday morning along with her dau...
DATE: Apr 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Plans for a new eight storey building off Pitts Bay Road have been put to the Department of Planning.
The application, put forward by West Hamilton Ltd, proposes a combination residential and commercial building with ten two-bedroom residential units...
DATE: Apr 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A record 89 positive cases of Covid-19 were recorded yesterday, bringing the total number of active cases to an unprecedented 737, the health ministry said tonight.
Twenty people were in hospital, down from 21 yesterday, and five people remained in c...
DATE: Apr 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Bill Zuill
A brief summer cruise season with companies homeported in Bermuda stands to bring $40 million in economic impact, the transport minister revealed yesterday.
Lawrence Scott said the announcement that Viking would join Royal Caribbean in launching trip...
DATE: Apr 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
School students could be learning remotely until May, the Education Minister said yesterday.
Diallo Rabain, the education minister, said the closing of public and private schools to in-house learning from Monday was done on the advice of the Educati...
DATE: Apr 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s gang reduction co-ordinator said Tuesday night’s fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man in Warwick may not have been totally gang-related — even if some of those involved may have been gang members.
Leroy Bean, whose Gang Violence Reduction T...
DATE: Apr 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Bean
The island’s first gun murder victim of 2021 was named yesterday as Jordan Outerbridge, a father and husband, shot in Warwick as he walked home from a card game.
Mr Outerbridge, 37, was leaving a house ahead of the curfew when he was shot several tim...
DATE: Apr 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell