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Just two coronavirus cases were logged yesterday, health officials revealed tonight.
The infections were among 1,014 results that came back to health officials – a positivity rate of 0.2 per cent.
Both cases were recorded as on-island transmissions w...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The head of the police internal discipline unit has returned to Britain and a Bermudian officer has replaced her.
The announcement that Superintendent Gillian Murray – seconded from the British Transport Police – had left the island came more than fi...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
Bermuda High School pupils will return to the classroom next week if the Government moves to Phase 2 of the gradual return to normal life on Sunday as planned.
The news of the Monday return came in a letter from Linda Parker, the head of school, to p...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Veterans of the 1981 General Strike were applauded yesterday outside the former headquarters of the Bermuda Industrial Union.
A small crowd gathered to commemorate the landmark event 40 years on.
Chris Furbert, the BIU president, read a declaration o...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
American television network NBC has highlighted the pandemic perils of overseas travel after one of its producers was forced to quarantine in Bermuda.
Mimi Segal, an NBC10Boston producer, said that she and her husband planned a break on the island af...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The acting US Consul General has left the island after just three months in the post, it was announced today.
Alan Purcell, a career diplomat, came to Bermuda at the end of January after the election of Democrat Joe Biden as US president.
It is under...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Government is set to remove seven abandoned boats from Coot Pond in St George’s after no one stepped forward to claim them.
The Ministry of Transport published a notice in the Official Gazette on April 26 urging the owners of the seven boats “seeming...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A homeless man yesterday admitted a breach of curfew after he was arrested by police while out after hours.
Magistrates Court heard Heman Viera, 53, was spotted walking near Cherry Hill Park, Paget at about 12.50am on March 14, while the former midni...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A team of international researchers used satellite technology to map Bermuda’s undersea environment from space.
Nathan Thomas and Lola Fatoyinbo of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre merged together data from multiple sources in an effort to accurate...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A conference later this month will mark the launch of Bermuda’s national cultural heritage policy.
The Department of Culture will hold its first Bermuda Cultural Stakeholder Conference on May 16 on Zoom in what is expected to become an annual event.
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DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan