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The trial of the assistant director of the Government’s child protection agency on charges she assaulted a girl in her care started yesterday.
It was alleged in Magistrates’ Court that Kennette Robinson, 52, punched and choked a 17-year-old girl who...
DATE: Oct 20, 2020
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News
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A man was referred to DUI court after he admitted crashing his motorcycle and refusal to take a breath test.
Jermaine Harvey, 37, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to refusal to take a breath test after he was suspected of drink driving.
The court...
DATE: Oct 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Almost $57 million was paid by the Government in assistance to more than 10,000 unemployed residents as the Covid-19 pandemic hit the island’s workforce this year.
Jason Hayward, the labour minister, revealed a sharp drop in numbers for further bene...
DATE: Oct 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An “international matrix of white power” was behind the company that developed land in Tucker’s Town for tourism purposes, a Bermudian historian said yesterday (MON).
Theodore Francis said the Bermuda Development Company was formed in 1920 by represe...
DATE: Oct 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
A US travel personality praised the rules imposed to protect against Covid-19 on a trip to Bermuda last weekend.
Evita Robinson, the founder of Nomadness Travel Tribe, added that other countries should follow the island’s example.
She said in a video...
DATE: Oct 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Two young Bermudians studying journalism abroad have been picked by the English-speaking Union for the organisation’s higher education grants for this year.
The two recipients are Samantha Soares and Alisa Bernardo.
Each will get a boost of $3,500 to...
DATE: Oct 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police today named two men who lost their lives last week in separate road traffic fatalities as Omar Wilson and Daymon Simmons.
Mr Wilson, 47, died of injuries suffered after his motorbike was in collision with a car at Town Hill Road and Harringto...
DATE: Oct 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Weather models predicted Tropical Storm Epsilon would gain strength and edge past east of Bermuda on Friday.
Forecasters warned wet weather, stronger winds and rough seas should be expected.
The National Hurricane Centre in the United States said th...
DATE: Oct 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A report that Bermuda ranked fifth in the world for rape offences was today attacked by the island’s top police officer.
Commissioner of Police Stephen Corbishley said the report, published on Facebook, was misleading “to some degree” because the Ber...
DATE: Oct 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A West End stretch of the Railway Trail will be one-way for a golf tournament later this month, the public works ministry said today.
The area affected runs from the White Hill Field gateway in Southampton to Tribe Road No. 5 for the PGA Bermuda Cham...
DATE: Oct 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson