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Police warned the public today about a mystery shopper scam circulating on social media.
A Bermuda Police Service spokesman said that offers to act as a secret shopper were often made on Facebook as well as through e-mails, WhatsApp and text messages...
DATE: Oct 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Remembrance Day commemorations to honour the sacrifice of Bermuda’s Armed Services personnel will go ahead this year despite Covid-19.
The traditional November 11 ceremony will be held with strict coronavirus precautions in force.
But the usual lunch...
DATE: Oct 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
More than 600 coronavirus test results came back clear, the health ministry said today .
News of the 622 tests meant that the number of confirmed cases remained at 185.
There are four active cases, all monitored by public health officials, but none ...
DATE: Oct 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
The Government said yesterday that it had not yet launched court proceedings to try to get back an $800,000 loan to an American music promoter.
The cash was lent to Anthony Blakey, from Atlanta, and Danilee Trott, a Bermudian event planner who worked...
DATE: Oct 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
Butterfield Bank has made about 25 staff redundant because of the economic crisis caused by Covid-19.
A spokesman for the bank confirmed tonight that 51 positions have been made redundant internationally because of internal restructuring, with “rough...
DATE: Oct 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A pop-up clinic was yesterday flooded by hundreds of people who queued up to get flu shots in the run-up to the peak season for the disease.
The Flu Express clinic at the rubber tree near Warwick Post Office on Middle Road dealt with 660 visitors fo...
DATE: Oct 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A Bermudian firm hired to manage the construction of a major solar energy plant at the airport has been fired, a source said yesterday.
Noesis Consulting Limited were announced in May as the project managers for the six-megawatt solar farm on a 19 ac...
DATE: Oct 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police have appealed for help after the discovery of three packages of suspected drugs in the waters off the South Shore.
A Bermuda Police Service spokesman said the first package was found by a visitor to the island just before 1pm on Monday while s...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
A farmer’s mission to see “mini-farming” adopted in Bermuda had yet to be fully embraced before the Covid-19 pandemic hit.
But interest in Chris Faria’s “grow biointensive” method of farming has blossomed as people begin to take responsibility for th...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
Reality TV star and socialite Paris Hilton joined a protest held in a bid to shut down a controversial American boarding school for troubled children used by the Bermuda Government.
Ms Hilton, who spent almost a year at Provo Canyon School in Utah wh...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell