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The number of road accidents at the start of the year has dropped, the latest statistics have revealed.
A total of 96 road accidents were reported for January, compared to 112 in the same month last year and 115 for the start of 2019.
But the number ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Campaigns
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A wine expert who claimed to be on his way home from a tasting when he was arrested on suspicion of drink driving was banned from the roads for 18 months and fined yesterday.
Arne Schwarz, 57, a sommelier, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to refu...
DATE: Mar 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A severe weather warning was today issued by forecasters.
The Bermuda Weather Service said a thunderstorm advisory was also in force and that gusts of up to 60mph between 3am and 6am could be expected.
The weather service said: “The active weather p...
DATE: Mar 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A curfew is to be reintroduced after a spike in coronavirus cases, the health minister announced last night.
Kim Wilson said the move was made after the island suffered an “emerging outbreak” of Covid-19 which may be be linked to the virulent UK stra...
DATE: Mar 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Employees have been encouraged to return to their offices rather than work from home in a bid to boost the economy.
David Burt, the Premier, spoke out after Hamilton restaurants, coffee shops and stores reported a dip in daytime trade – fuelled in pa...
DATE: Mar 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
One Bermuda Alliance senators will vote against legislation to licence cannabis production at today’s session of the Upper House, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Ben Smith, the Opposition senate leader, said the Government Bill did not set out what it...
DATE: Mar 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Government is to boost performance artists hit by Covid-19 restrictions with a string of free open-air concerts, senators were told today.
Ernest Peets, the youth culture and sport minister, said a lunchtime Creatives Live! concert series from th...
DATE: Mar 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Jobs will be lost at the Bermuda Tourism Authority as the organisation grapples with a second year of Covid-19, the body’s interim CEO said yesterday.
Glenn Jones said: “Like any travel industry business struggling into a second year of the pandemic,...
DATE: Mar 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A film tribute to a young father who died in a crash at the start of the year will be shown tonight to mark what would have been his 29th birthday.
Oronde Wilson Jr was devoted to his daughters Kiley, aged 7, and Lila Burt-Wilson, aged 3.
The two wer...
DATE: Mar 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Campaigns
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police were yesterday checking CCTV footage after vandals removed at least 30 storm drain covers in Hamilton on Sunday night.
A spokeswoman for the City of Hamilton said that the covers were found “beside the drain, across the street and even in the ...
DATE: Mar 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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