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A planned luxury housing development has sold seven of its 18 high-end lots at the waterside site, it was revealed yesterday.
Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, said reports of the sales at Riddell’s Bay, a former Warwick golf club that clos...
DATE: Nov 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Supreme Court trials are scheduled to restart next week after a months-long halt caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons said at yesterday’s arraignments session that work to reopen Supreme Court 1 in Sessions House with Co...
DATE: Nov 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Two “major player” telecoms companies are interested in installing undersea cables that would land in Bermuda, the home affairs minister revealed yesterday.
Mr Roban, the home affairs minister, said other firms linked to giants such as Google and Fac...
DATE: Nov 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An armed robber raided a supermarket early today and escaped with a haul of cash.
The man struck at the Somers’ Supermart in St George's just before 6am, brandished a firearm and demanded money.
Police said the raider was 5’ 9” tall, dressed in black...
DATE: Nov 02, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The One Bermuda Alliance will be an effective Opposition party despite its depleted ranks, its new leader promised today.
Cole Simons said a mix of former MPs and other candidates who stood for the party in the October General Election, will work tog...
DATE: Nov 02, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
Environmental campaigners and health groups have joined forces to fight the introduction of controversial 5G communications technology.
Greenrock, Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce, Ocean Rock Wellness, Bermuda Advocates for Safe Technol...
DATE: Nov 02, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A Progressive Labour Party stalwart, teacher and trade unionist has died aged 98.
Ann Pindar, who ran as a candidate for the PLP in 1968 and 1976 elections, was hailed by the party as a pioneer in the Bermuda labour movement.
A party spokeswoman said...
DATE: Nov 02, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
“Unprecedented” unemployment in the island’s “worst jobs crisis in modern times” stands at double 2019 levels, the labour minister warned yesterday.
Jason Hayward said further losses were expected with “large scale redundancies in hospitality and fin...
DATE: Nov 02, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A veteran waiter at now-shuttered Fairmont Southampton forced to sleep rough after he was ordered to quit staff accommodation ten days ago said the way he was treated was “inhumane”.
George Uy, who had worked at the resort, for a decade, said he spen...
DATE: Nov 02, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A 38-year-old man has denied a sex assault on a woman.
The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to the charge in Magistrates’ Court.
The offence is alleged to have happened on June 14 last year in Pembroke.
Magistrate T...
DATE: Nov 02, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson