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DATE: Jan 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Event
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AUTHOR:
Akil Simmons
A further 28 bus routes have been cancelled this afternoon because the buses were needed for school runs.
Thirty bus routes were cancelled this morning.
The cancellations occurred because the Department of Public Transportation and Bermuda’s minibu...
DATE: Jan 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The US Consul General will leave his post in Bermuda after just six months, he said yesterday.
Lee Rizzuto’s appointment will end when the new Democratic administration in the United States is sworn in next week.
Joe Biden will take over as President...
DATE: Jan 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Bermuda has reported no locally transmitted cases of Covid-19 for a second day.
There were three imported cases found out of 966 test results, the Ministry of Health announced last night – all among residents returning from overseas.
One arrived last...
DATE: Jan 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A bid by Opposition senators to make Hamilton docks an essential service was defeated in the Upper House yesterday afternoon.
A vote on the question was taking during debate on the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 2020.
A second...
DATE: Jan 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Staff at the Ministry of Finance are working from home after the department closed its offices on Parliament Street.
But the Government is refusing to give a reason for the closure or say when the shutdown was imposed.
In a statement issued yesterday...
DATE: Jan 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Saltus Grammar School has awarded long service awards to 15 of its staff members.
The employees, who collectively celebrated 240 years of service, are: Joy Oatley (30 years of service); Mario Foote (30 years); Alexander “Sandy” White (25 years); Mary...
DATE: Jan 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Senators yesterday passed the Employment Amendment Act in the biggest expansion of employees’ rights in 20 years.
The Act seeks to provide protections for workers against extended probationary periods and bullying. In a slew of other amendments, ber...
DATE: Jan 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Bill Zuill
A man who admitted hitting his 14-year-old daughter avoided jail time after he promised to change his behaviour.
Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe sentenced the 33-year-old man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, to a year-long suspended prison ...
DATE: Jan 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A truck driver who admitted drink driving without a helmet was shown mercy yesterday when the magistrate fined him half of the usual tariff for the offence.
Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe fined Vernon Eve $500 during Magistrates’ Court, but banned the...
DATE: Jan 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
