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Two schoolgirls who started an online service to connect volunteers with charities won a total of $6,000 in a competition for young entrepreneurs.
Moya van Niekerk and Loré de Kock, both Bermuda High School pupils, wowed the judges of the Youth Pitch...
DATE: Nov 23, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
New treatment courts are planned to help keep people out of prison and instead treat their problems, the island’s senior magistrate has revealed.
Juan Wolffe said that discussions to develop juvenile mental health, family health and sex offenders’ tr...
DATE: Nov 23, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A 74-year-old driver accused of injuring a cycling magistrate has given evidence in his Magistrates’ Court trial.
Brian Alkon, a real estate agent from St George’s, is charged with causing grievous bodily harm to Craig Attridge by driving a vehicle w...
DATE: Nov 23, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
A massed orchestra performance slated for St George today has been moved indoors because of the risk of heavy rain.
The concert, which was to have involved the Bermuda Youth Orchestra, the Royal Bermuda Regiment Band & Corps of Drums and the String C...
DATE: Nov 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Two new coronavirus cases were confirmed today.
The Ministry of Health said that both are residents – one symptomatic and one asymptomatic – with no history of travel.
One of the positive cases has a close contact that is associated with a school who...
DATE: Nov 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Schools around the island celebrated World Children’s Day yesterday and raised money for a charity devoted to the welfare of families.
The youngsters wore blue to mark the UN’s drive to better the lives of children around the world – and helped rais...
DATE: Nov 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A child sex offender jailed for 18 months will not get a heavier sentence, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.
Cindy Clarke, for the Crown, argued that Chez Rogers should serve at least three years after he was convicted on charges of luring and hav...
DATE: Nov 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A new tenant is expected to take on the lease to run a beachside café at Horseshoe Bay.
The Rum Bum Beach Bar was managed by South Beach Ltd on behalf of Chops Ltd, which won the tender in 2016.
But Chris Montgomery, a director at South Beach, said t...
DATE: Nov 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Two murderers and a third man jailed for attempted murder have won the right to appeal their convictions in what was said to be a potential landmark decision.
The ruling by the Court of Appeal yesterday came in the wake of changes to the law on jury ...
DATE: Nov 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Talks to end industrial action by union workers on Hamilton docks remained deadlocked last night.
Warren Jones, the chief executive of Polaris Holding Company, the parent company of Stevedoring Services, said there had been “no resolution” after 32 d...
DATE: Nov 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
