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The man behind the programme designed to allow larger gatherings and help restart tourism has moved to ease concerns over the scheme.
Denis Pitcher, the Government’s fintech adviser, who created the programme free of charge, said he was inspired by M...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A naturalist has warned against the use of rat poisons that could kill off the barn owls that prey on them.
David Wingate said that anticoagulant poisons that caused internal bleeding in rats had also killed owls that ate them.
He added that the use ...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Just two coronavirus cases were logged yesterday, it was revealed last night.
The infections were among 3,665 test results that came back to health officials.
The tests – which covered last Thursday to Saturday – equated to a test positivity rate of...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The owners of Bermuda’s biggest hotel are expected to discuss finance arrangements for its refurbishment in the next month, the finance minister revealed yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson said Gencom, the owners of the shuttered Fairmont Southampton, had s...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A bill of $5.3 million for unemployment benefits in just three months highlighted the economic impact of the latest coronavirus outbreak, the finance minister said yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson said benefits had been paid to 4,938 people since March an...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A substantial donation has brought a new shelter for homeless women and their children closer to the finish line.
Aspen, an insurance and reinsurance firm, gave $25,000 to Habitat for Humanity Bermuda earlier this month to help create its Transformat...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Rental rates have been slashed by the City of Hamilton to help reduce the financial strains faced by residents, community groups, small businesses and local charities caused by Covid-19.
“Due to the limited capacity of social gatherings as per the Be...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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A Covid-19 curfew breach and traffic offences yesterday cost a man $3,850.
Adam King, 41, was fined $2000 in Magistrates’ Court after he pleaded guilty to a breach of the earlier 7pm to 7am curfew as well as two traffic offences.
The court heard poli...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A week devoted to making sure people are ready for the hurricane season will launch next Monday.
Renee Ming, the national security minister, said that the emergency broadcast service would broadcast daily lunchtime briefings until next Friday.
She ad...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The first International Baccalaureate class at a private school yesterday prepared themselves for their high school graduation.
The total of 12 Somersfield Academy pupils – some of whom had been at the Devonshire school since they were aged three – c...
DATE: May 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson