152668 results returned for search: "" category "News"
The artist who wins a commission to decorate a Government office will get paid for their work, following an intervention from the Premier.
Government sent out a request for proposal earlier this week, calling on artists to submit ideas for a mural in...
DATE: Mar 13, 2021
|
CATEGORY:
General
|
AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
More than $350 million in unpaid taxes and fees is owed to the Government, the Minister of Finance revealed yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson warned that almost half the cash would probably never be collected.
He was responding to questions from Opposition...
DATE: Mar 13, 2021
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A total of three new coronavirus infections were recorded yesterday, the health ministry said last night.
One was a returned resident on the American Airlines flight from Miami last Tuesday and who tested positive on their Day 8 test.
The others were...
DATE: Mar 13, 2021
|
CATEGORY:
Health
|
AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A group of businesses teamed up to help a charity for the disabled get an all-terrain vehicle to help manage their sprawling site.
Construction firm Greymane, Best Shipping, design firm CTX and Stoltzfus Farm Equipment – a US based supplier – helped ...
DATE: Mar 13, 2021
|
CATEGORY:
News
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A jazz veteran and accomplished bass guitarist from the heyday of the Bermudian entertainment scene has died.
Quinton “Tiny” Burgess, a nephew of jazz trumpeter Vernon “Ghandi” Burgess, was 78.
Although best-known for playing bass guitar, Mr Burgess ...
DATE: Mar 13, 2021
|
CATEGORY:
Entertainment
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
A teenage girl yesterday told Magistrates’ Court that an 81-year-old man who gave her lifts home after school grabbed her buttocks.
The 17-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said that she ran into the man while she was out for a st...
DATE: Mar 13, 2021
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A man who decked out on his motorcycle has been sent to DUI Court after he admitted being impaired at the time.
Gregory Dill, 58, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to having care and control of a vehicle while impaired.
The court heard that police...
DATE: Mar 13, 2021
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Police issued a warning today after social media messages highlighted a “paedophile frequenting the Fort Hamilton area” in Pembroke.
The messages included a description of the person.
The spokesman said acts of “vigilante justice – in relation to any...
DATE: Mar 12, 2021
|
CATEGORY:
Crime
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
More than one in four people in Bermuda have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and 16 percent are fully immunised, the health ministry said last night.
The news came as the ministry reported that a single coronavirus infection was de...
DATE: Mar 12, 2021
|
CATEGORY:
Health
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Tributes have been paid by the island’s teaching union to Dr Joseph Christopher, a former Commissioner of Education, who died earlier this week.
In a statement, the Bermuda Union of Teachers described Dr Christopher as a “man of immense intellectual ...
DATE: Mar 12, 2021
|
CATEGORY:
Education
|