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Shortly before the Government said most social distancing requirements would end on Sunday, the One Bermuda Alliance called for an end to overly strict regulations against Covid-19.
The Opposition said tourists were “hesitant to visit Bermuda” becaus...
DATE: Jun 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A fleet of hi-tech electric buses is expected to be up and running by next March. the transport minister said yesterday.
Lawrence Scott, the Minister of Transport, said that the first of 30 buses are scheduled to arrive in January next year.
He said...
DATE: Jun 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A historian who publicised plans to demolish a historic house where the founders of the Berkeley Institute first gathered is to hold a meeting at the school in a bid to ensure the preservation of the home.
Maxine Esdaille of the Africa Diaspora Heri...
DATE: Jun 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A concert to celebrate the lives of Bermuda’s national heroes will be held at Victoria Park this Saturday.
The concert line-up includes Gene Steede, Joy T Barnum, Willard Burch, Val Sherwood, Working Title, and Wendell Hayward among others.
Bermuda’...
DATE: Jun 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Work by power firm Belco will cause traffic delays in the east of the island for the rest of the summer, the public works ministry said yesterday.
Harrington Sound Road near Quarry Road in Hamilton Parish, will be closed to traffic on Saturday and Su...
DATE: Jun 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
More than half of staff at the newly opened St Regis Bermuda Resort are Bermudian – and the number is expected to increase.
Jason Hayward, the Minister of Labour, said today that it was expected that more than 90 Bermudians would start work at the St...
DATE: Jun 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda could face “another round” of the Covid-19 pandemic and potentially a tough winter, the Premier warned last night.
Mr Burt told a virtual Bermuda Captive Conference: “I happen to believe that we are going to have another round of the pandemic...
DATE: Jun 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Royal Caribbean International scrapped plans to send cruise ships to Bermuda this summer because of the Government’s insistence that all passengers had to be vaccinated, it was revealed yesterday.
Lawrence Scott, the transport minister, said that oth...
DATE: Jun 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Bermuda Zoological Society has held an online workshop for non-governmental organisations that showed how to gather statistics to measure the success of academic programmes.
A BZS spokeswoman said the aim of the one-day virtual workshop was “to h...
DATE: Jun 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The island is to get a fresh delivery of 4,680 doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 from Britain, it was revealed last night.
Government House said the consignment would arrive on June 24 on the British Airways flight.
The island’s last batch of the Pfizer ...
DATE: Jun 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor