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DATE: Jan 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Event
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AUTHOR:
Akil Simmons
A firebrand school principal in the United States whose tough love approach to pupils inspired the film Lean on Me has died.
Joe Louis Clark was 83.
Mr Clark’s link to Bermuda came through daughter Hazel Clark, a former Olympian and director of sport...
DATE: Jan 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
Firefighters tackled a car blaze last night.
Three fire engines rushed to the fire in Roberts Avenue, Devonshire at about 10.15pm.
A fire service spokesman said the car was “fully engulfed in flames” when the crews arrived.
The blaze was put out by...
DATE: Jan 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Trash collection over the weekend may be delayed by a day, the works and engineering department warned today.
A spokesman for the department’s Waste Management Section advised residents who were expecting to have their garbage collected on Saturday d...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Another two coronavirus cases were announced this afternoon while the number of active cases dropped to 149, the lowest number since December 12.
Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, appealed to people to obey curfew restrictions tonight in order to ...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Two Bermudians have been recognised for their service to the island in the New Year’s Honours List.
The Queen’s Certificate and Badge of Honour was awarded to Meredith Andrews for services to the environment, and to Nikita Robinson for services to th...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
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
