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The Bermuda Road Safety Council has called on event organisers have a plan to ensure guests can return safely as the summer season ramps up.
A spokesman for the body said transportation plans that include pre-arranged minibuses, taxis or ferried have...
DATE: Jun 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An international children’s charity has donated hampers to 22 families in need.
The families, about 97 people altogether, received cleaning products, masks and gift cards from grocery stores and pharmacies from the Continental Society of Bermuda.
Tra...
DATE: Jun 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Campaigns
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
People looking to put on functions for more than 100 guests are being asked not to submit applications until next Monday, June 28.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sport, which has taken over responsibility for granting exemptions...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Road works to advance the solar farm at LF Wade International Airport will impact traffic on Kindley Field Road from next week.
The Ministry of Public Works said that Saturn Solar Development, the developer behind the solar farm, will reopen an exist...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Travelling residents are still being blocked from boarding flights to Bermuda because travel regulations listed on Government’s website have not been updated, it has been revealed.
Last Friday, Government jettisoned a controversial directive groundin...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The island’s top magistrate yesterday said that Covid regulations are ‘criminalising people who are otherwise not criminals’.
Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe told Magistrates’ Court that many breaches of the Public Health Regulations created criminal r...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A union leader is calling for tougher penalties for “unscrupulous employers” who try to weaken union representation.
Armell Thomas, the president of the the Bermuda Public Service Union, said membership in some bargaining units was under threat from ...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermudians feel that their “human rights and constitutional rights are being trampled upon” by “onerous” quarantine rules.
And greater debate is needed over Government’s Covid-19 regulations in order to safeguard the rights of Bermudians, according t...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A 56-year-old man shot multiple times a week ago has been moved out of intensive care, police said yesterday.
The shooting happened at about 7.30pm at Darrell’s Wharf in Warwick on Wednesday, June 16, when two people rode up on a motorcylce and shot ...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
An independent senator today joined calls to save a historic building earmarked for demolition.
Michelle Simmons, vice president of the Senate, said Wantley, located on Princess Street, was a window into the island’s collective past and should be pre...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes