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A batch of Covid-19 vaccines was left to defrost for longer than recommended before being given to 41 people earlier this month.
Chief Medical Officer Ayoola Oyinloye sent a letter yesterday to those who received the shot at Bermuda College on the ev...
DATE: Mar 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
Police have called on the public to help find two people involved in a hit-and-run collision that left two men injured.
A police spokesman said that at about 9.25pm on Wednesday night, two motorcycles collided near the junction of Palmetto Road and R...
DATE: Mar 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A chef, West End restaurant owner and pillar of the Somerset community has died at 58.
Donald Hassell, proprietor of the Somerset Country Squire at Mangrove Bay, was a “brilliant, kind, generous and friendly man who exemplified everything that hospit...
DATE: Mar 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
Police yesterday renewed their appeal for help from the community in cracking a string of at least six suspicious fires over the past two weeks in the Pembroke and central region of the island.
Acting Inspector Clifford Roberts, speaking in front of ...
DATE: Mar 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Efforts will be made to increase the number of police officers this year, the Senate heard yesterday.
Curtis Richardson, the Junior Minister of Health, Transport and National Security, said that while the Bermuda Police Service numbers had fallen, a ...
DATE: Mar 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A cruise ship sailing from a home port in Bermuda this summer is expected to make 12 voyages from Dockyard, Government revealed yesterday.
Royal Caribbean announced on Tuesday that the Vision of the Seas, docked this week in the British Virgin Island...
DATE: Mar 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
More than 100 bird species were spotted in Bermuda last month - including the first sighting of a mountain bluebird on the island.
Paul Watson and Erich Hetzel of the Bermuda Audubon Society said the unusual visitor was seen as part of a month-long b...
DATE: Mar 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Professional services firm KPMG has closed its offices until further notice after two people tested positive for Covid-19, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
A KPMG spokeswoman confirmed this afternoon that the firm sent staff home on Monday after the Min...
DATE: Mar 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Bermuda’s hospitals are surviving from pay cheque to pay cheque, with no financial reserves to cover unexpected emergency costs.
The Bermuda Hospitals Board has even had to arrange a bank overdraft as a back-up should it need extra cash in an unfore...
DATE: Mar 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Water quality tests on tanks near Belco found trace levels of pollution – but at levels well within international standards for drinking water.
Geoff Smith, an environmental engineer with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and Shaun...
DATE: Mar 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes