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Myrtle Edness may be one of Bermuda’s last people to recall the constant ringing of funeral bells from the 1918 flu pandemic.
Mrs Edness, who turned 106 over the summer, spent 2020 carefully shielded from family in their Warwick home after the global...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The 52nd Annual Gas-O-Rama fundraiser started its engines yesterday with the new Governor Rena Lalgie.
The fundraising event, organised by the Hamilton Lions Club in partnership with Terceira’s Rubis Service Station, will bolster two charities throug...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Health officials hope to begin vaccinating residents against the coronavirus within the next two weeks, the Government has said.
Bermuda is in line to receive 9,750 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by the end of next week, with the first doses ex...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Seven new cases of coronavirus infection have brought the island’s total cases to 602, it was announced this evening.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the results came out of 715 new test results.
Four cases are local with known contacts, and t...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Minister of National Security last night urged anyone with information about the latest incident of gun violence to step forward.
Renee Ming, speaking at the Government’s Covid-19 press conference, said Monday night’s shooting near the junction o...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Bermudian nurse on the frontline of the pandemic in Washington DC has urged the public to be wary of misinformation about vaccines.
Davon Adams, who works in a level-one trauma centre, said he recently received the first of two scheduled doses of t...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda’s tourism industry is on a “slow and gradual” path to recovery, according to the head of the Bermuda Tourism Authority.
Glenn Jones, the interim CEO of the BTA, told the World Tourism Network in an online presentation last Saturday that the b...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A former senior Anglican priest who was paralysed as a result of a fall in July will not be returning to the island.
Norman Lynas, the former Canon Residentiary at the Anglican Cathedral in Hamilton, fell down a set of steps in Bermuda on July 30, a...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Big-hearted staff at a reinsurance firm donated 88 decorative shoeboxes packed with school supplies, clothing and other accessories to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bermuda.
Marsh and Guy Carpenter announced the giveaway, worth $8,800, to the mentoring...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Community activist Regina Peniston served hearty Christmas dinners to 160 people in need on Monday - despite Covid-19 related restrictions in place.
The meals, provided by donors, were supposed to have been delivered on Boxing day but poor weather de...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan