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A dispute over a roadside hedge near an accident hotspot could end with the landowner being ordered to move the bushes.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works minister, told MPs on Friday that the best solution might “appease the majority o...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Campaigns
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bad smells have forced efforts to market a disused resort to be put on hold, MPs heard on Friday.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, told the House of Assembly that the decision to halt the bid to get the former 9 Beaches r...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Government’s 50th annual summer day camps are to go ahead on July 5, with online registration starting from 9.30am next Wednesday.
Camps, for children aged four to 14, cost $60 a week.
Enrolment can be done through the Department of Youth, Sport ...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A new plan guiding “the development of Bermuda for many years to come” was tabled on Friday in the House of Assembly.
Tabling The Bermuda Plan 2018 Walter Roban, the home affairs minister, told MPs: “It is the product of consultation with the public...
DATE: May 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A takeout restaurant gave food away free to thousands of customers after a computer glitch caused bank card transactions to fail to register.
But customers at Four Star locations in Flatts, Somerset and Warwick, as well as the Glaze Bakery on Church ...
DATE: May 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A minimum wage is not recommended for workers aged under 18 or staff in family businesses who are related to the owner, a special report said yesterday.
The independent Wage Commission report, tabled in the House of Assembly, also recommended that li...
DATE: May 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A magistrate has appealed to police to launch an investigation into allegations of misconduct against two officers without “further procrastination or incompetence”.
Khamisi Tokunbo claimed the Bermuda Police Service had used “delay tactics” to avoid...
DATE: May 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
Two police officers appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with a sex assault on a man.
The incident is alleged to have happened on April 27, 2019.
The officers, both male, did not have to enter a plea as the case must be heard in the Supre...
DATE: May 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Subtropical Storm Ana – the first named storm of the year – is expected to move past Bermuda today.
The Bermuda Weather Service said at 6am that a Tropical Storm Watch is in force but the system is expected to remain more than 180 miles from the isla...
DATE: May 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Another five coronavirus cases were confirmed last night – but the number of active infections dropped to 73.
A Ministry of Health spokeswoman said the new cases were among 1,029 test results received since yesterday.
Two of the cases came in from ov...
DATE: May 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes